Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enterprise was credited with successful prosecution of nine major projects, and persistent and effective efforts in behalf of a score of other causes. But its magnum opus was the fencing off of Pike County, Miss, from Louisiana...
First an expedient, Cuba has grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...
...Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that he was obtaining the invaluable Riggs collection of armor for the Metropolitan, he was publishing through the Natural History Museum his magnum opus, a stupendous, three-volume Bibliography of Fishes...
Author Maxim Gorki is famed in Europe: in the last three years 2,000,000 copies of his books have been sold in Russia alone. He is little known in the U. S. Says he: Bystander is his magnum opus...