Word: hugest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They transformed the ballroom of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium into a scrupulous likeness of the 1912 Democratic convention hall at Baltimore. Hugest interior shot, the convention scene was "light-painted" for Technicolorists by enough electric power to service a city...
What Chances? Thus, with every detail worked out, even to the designation of the trees behind which broadcasters should crouch, the veteran German Army took on its hugest job. Though bigger potential armies (10,000,000 Russians, 9,000,000 Germans) had never fought on a bigger potential front, the weathered Germans began fighting Russia just as they had opened against all the other opponents, with apparent calm, with obvious savvy...
...world's greatest collection of incendiary literature was last week opened to the public by Herbert Hoover. It is the Hoover Library of War, Revolution, and Peace on the Campus of Stanford University. The Library is also the world's hugest collection of social and political documents, and all of them relate to the contemporary world. Mr. Hoover has spent some 25 years collecting its vast, inflammatory archives, so that the hushed new Romanesque tower is a storehouse of most of the social and political dynamite of our times. There are the secret minutes of chancelleries and general...
World War II's biggest front, its oldest battle, its hugest protagonist are unknowns. Since May 8 the Japanese have been pushing against the Northern China Front, in an important feeler operation involving about six Japanese divisions. To an unknowing world it is a vast battle in the dark and yet few zones of operation are more important to the London-Washington Axis...
...west pushed forward at the battle's outset, reached and crossed the lower Seine south of Rouen. Clouds of parachute troops swarmed down on the plain of Champagne, south of Reims. As German operations developed, the Battle of France took its place as easily history's hugest and, for France, most terrible...