Word: best
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected that a former Harvard captain and all-American as prominent in the public eye as Hamilton Fish would have something to say about this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
...came to this country from Hungary two years ago, after living in Budapost during the war and during the long siege of that city by the Russians. His father is Lajos Zilahy, author of 1943 best seller, "The Dukays." Michael was an only...
...heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity of his emotion with any insincerity...
Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could hope for in such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20%. Last week, after listening to a pessimistic summary of these facts, doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in San Francisco heard some unexpected good news. Dr. Louis K. Diamond of Boston Children's Hospital rose from the audience and said quietly: "I would be remiss...
...turns out all right in the end. Ford has a big sergeant who drinks Irish whiskey and demolishes a half dozen or so of his comrades in a friendly bar-room test of strength--one of the three interior scenes in the whole picture. These scenes, in the best tradition of the Western, have never been done better. This movie is a very particular kind of classic. If you like that kind...