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In dem packenden Kampf gegen die Uhr siegte letztlich ein deutsches Team, das über sich selbst hinausgewachsen war. [G] In what was a nailbiting race against the clock, the German team rallied round in a Herculean effort from which they finally emerged victorious.

In einem herkulischen Akt wurde es 1958 von 15.000 Arbeitern innerhalb von drei Jahren nach dem Modell eines Eisenmoleküls als Symbol des Aufbruchs ins Atom-zeitalter für die Weltausstellung in Brüssel geschaffen. [G] Back in 1958 a Herculean effort went into its construction for the Brussels World Fair - it took 15,000 workers three years to build this model of an iron molecule that symbolised the advent of the atomic age.

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