Word: worst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago next week the U. S. entered the tenth and worst depression in its history. On the morning of October 24, 1929, the stockmarket that had been slowly declining skidded sickeningly, plunged down, and kept on going. Unknown to anybody, its future unforeseen, its consequences incalculable, the Great Depression set in. But it was not called that. The names that people give to things reveal what they think about them, and the name that the U. S. gave to its crisis was the ringing and melodramatic Crash...
Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...
...Derringer face the formidable bats of Enos Slaughter (.321), Joe Medwick (.333), Johnny Mize (.351) and Don Padgett (.410)-baseball's hardest-hitting quartet. Derringer had won 24 games this year, had struck out 124 batters and walked only 35. Yet even his most devoted admirers feared the worst...
...John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
...headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...