Word: hardest
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...hardest job," he says, "has been to keep our church from becoming a social whip. The radicals bear down, saying we are not in there fighting. Others want us to become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part...
Before the convention, his political advisers had put Tom Dewey just behind Arthur Vandenberg in their rating of candidates hardest for Harry Truman to beat. With Earl Warren's nomination for Vice President, Democratic strategists gave up any remaining hope of carrying California...
...cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
Most-played violin piece: Bach's Chaconne from the Partita, in D Minor, which was sawed out 17 times in 109 violin recitals. Statistician Perkins found violinists more venturesome than pianists in programming contemporary music, but noted that both outdid orchestras in repeating war horses. The hardest-worked symphony of the season was a surprise: it was neither Beethoven's nor Tchaikovsky's Fifth, but Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (K.551), the "Jupiter...
...worst outbreak of infantile paralysis in the state's history has struck down 195 people since Jan. 1; the worst previous record for the same period was last year's 73 cases. Hardest hit was the Rio Grande Valley...