Word: heaviest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...till week's end did the Luftwaffe break the tension. Then, after a day of swirling dogfights over the Channel, the German bombers came back to London. It was the longest and heaviest raid Britain had had in four weeks. But to the straining British it was not long enough or heavy enough to account for the month's layoff...
...that old John Metaxas was dead (see p. 29). "Put us back in the ambulances," they said. "Send us back to the front." The Italians entirely miscalculated the effect of the Premier's death on Greek morale. Thinking the Greeks would go into a funk, they launched the heaviest counter-attacks of the whole war. They threaded tanks into the valleys, sent flame throwers onto the heights, and with steadier German hands to guide them, set strafing planes to hedgehop at risky low levels, to dive on causeways, bridges, gun emplacements. For the first time in months Rome...
Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...
Japan, who had demanded temporary permission to quarter 6,000 men at specified bases in Tonkin Protectorate, was building permanent barracks for 25,000 near the capital, Hanoï. Three first-class airdromes, one with a concrete runway to handle the heaviest bombers, were being constructed. It was an open secret that once her northern base was completed, Japan intended to move south, probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even...
Three-Way Split. Most sensational leap of science in recent years is the splitting of the massive uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, into nearly equal parts, with enormous returns of atomic energy (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939; May 27). Even physicists who turn up their noses at Buck Rogers talk had to admit that the practical harnessing of atomic power was now much nearer-though they still insist it is far off. When a slow-moving neutron hits the uranium atom's nucleus, the nucleus is constricted around the middle and finally splits, like an amoeba reproducing...