Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of Senators and Congressmen became purple last week attacking and defending the McCormick-Patterson publishing family. At hubbub's end the man who had taken the hardest lumps was not widely hated Colonel Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, but the most engaging member of the family: Captain Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News...
...Gone is the novel's prematurely aged man who has endured hell at Dunkirk, and who, feeling that his nation's social system is not worth fighting for, has deserted from the army. Instead, the audience is treated to the spectacle of a dashing lover who tries his hardest to be convincing with consistent failure...
...onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah's heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress...
...enemy, too, stepped up his aerial activity. He struck his hardest blow at Port Darwin on Australia's northern coast. In his first big night raid he sent over 27 bombers escorted by 22 Zeroes. Allied fighters met them, knocked down nine planes, lost only one. Again, Australia's defenders sent up no shouts of victory. Pared down to a minimum of equipment, they feared the implications of the big raid. It must mean that Japanese air strength in the South Pacific was on the rise. And on the future they looked with a strange, foreboding pleasure: there...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...