Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...growing importance to all connoisseurs and lovers of art. The collection of original marbles includes the well known Meleager, of the type attributed to the great sculptor Scopas. In the Print Room is an exhibition illustrating the whole history of engraving on copper, and many of the finest impressions of the collection are shown...
...gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. One of these is a portrait of Martin Luther bearing the date of 1546 and the dragon crest signature of Lucas Cranach, but in all probability is a work of his school. Although it does not possess the quality of the finest paintings by Cranach, like the Portrait of a Lady, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, it nevertheless is an extremely interesting characterization of the great reformer, and it illustrates the general manner of Cranach, who was one of the greatest German painters of the 16th century. The other two pictures...
Technology's new field, which is said by experts to be one of the finest athletic fields in the world, is rapidly nearing completion. The track, which is the widest sprinting stretch in existence, is to be ready Monday, October 12. The field also contains a football gridiron and a baseball diamond. Outside of these there will be pits for high and broad jumping and shot putting. The completion of this field means the filling of a long felt want at Technology, where the conditions under which athletics were carried on have been poor. At present the track...
...with a wet football--and anyone who has handled a wet football would be an easy winner in a greased pig contest--Haughton kicked to spots that could have been covered with the skin of gooseberry had they not already been covered by crimson jerseys. It was probably the finest piece of all round punting in the history of the game. To be sure, Harvard had a great running game, but even under the old rules, the running game was put in striking position by that deadly, certain punting...
...Oliveira Lima is forty-seven years of age, and famous throughout Latin America for his works on literary, political and economic topics. He is the possessor of one of the finest private libraries in the world, and a member of the Brazilian Academy and other learned societies. Moreover, in addition to his scholarship, he has had wide experience in political and diplomatic life, both in Latin America and in Europe, having served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in Venezuela, Peru, Belgium, and in Sweden, and occupied other important offices. He is also familiar with the United States, where he lectured...