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Word: greatest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera is, at his best, a pocket-size Homer, at his worst a billboard-calendarist wooing the tourist trade. And for all the movement and technical preciseness and colour, Diego Rivera has never been, certainly is not, Mexico's or the Hemisphere's greatest living artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...last year, $89,600 this year), enthusiastically said that the test had "great value" and could be made in any clinical laboratory. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine, and a former president of the association, called it "probably the greatest single advance ever made in the fight against cancer." Dr. Cameron promptly ordered 500 reprints of the Huggins report for distribution to clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...that the ironclad rule that History 1 be included in every concentrator's program exists no more, History is definitely one of the easier fields for the man with a pretty good memory. The exams aren't overly taxing and the field offers perhaps the greatest opportunity for rewarding scholastic effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...Waters declared one of the greatest difficulties of the present time in that 80 percent of criminal offences, in the misdemeanor class, are punished with the utmost severity. She added that people in the "culture group" just above do the same things "only respectably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe PBK Hears Talk by Van Waters | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...Gorer's is not the greatest book I have read," the conclusion of his paper says, "but it has distinction. It is a man's honest questioning and searching into what makes America. Americans, and people...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

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