Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Baltimore police department's K-9 Corps have a demoralizing effect on lawbreakers. Last year the three dozen dogs were credited with assisting in close to 500 arrests, but their greatest value, says Inspector Leo T. Kelly, is the "deterrent effect" of their mere presence on the streets. In the three years since the city's K-9 Corps got started-with two dogs-Baltimore has been one of the few big cities in the U.S. where crime rates have dropped...
...prime tenet of the Liberal parties that flourished in Latin America; Liberals effectively broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
While thousands of Boston residents scanned the sky in vain, 12 members of a new Freshman Seminar enjoyed "one of the greatest spectacles we've ever seen" early yesterday morning...
...American left London in triumph, but there were more laurels to win. The next stop was Dublin's famed Santry Stadium, scene of Herb Elliott's 3:54.5 mile in 1958, and it was there that Dyke Benjamin established himself as perhaps the greatest runner in Harvard history and a candidate for the 1960 Olympic team...
...many students want," Wilcox explained, "is to be known as an advanced standing sophomore." He claimed that the five or ten students who have expressed intention of refusing to become sophomores represent one of the greatest advances in undergraduate attitude toward the program since it was started...