Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Library, will give a conference on the illuminated manuscripts loaned to the Fogg Art Museum by John Pierpont Morgan '89 in the gallery of that museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The 25 or more books now at the Fogg Museum comprise some of the finest works in Pierpont Morgan's valuable collection of embellished manuscripts, which represent the art of many countries from the ninth to the 16th centuries. Of particular interest are two English volumes, the Bestiary of 1187 and the Windmill Psalter of a century later. A Greek Gospel represents the second Golden...
...destruction would make but a poor exchange for the Cathedral of Rheims. And now there are well grounded fears for beautiful Amiens! What ghoulish satisfaction the Germans must have--even at the moment when the British and French are sparing their great temple at Cologne--in destroying the finest piece of Gothic church architecture in France! --Boston Transcript...
When war was declared we had in our ports some of the finest of the German liners. The Vaterland, the largest ship in the world, the Kronprinzessin Cecllie, the Amerika, and several other "floating palaces," as well as a great number of freighters were just waiting for the United States to make use of them. Unfortunately, in spite of every precaution, the Germans were able to wreck the engines of these steamers. The Kaiser believed that none of these boats would all under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers...
Turning to the verse we must congratulate Mr. LaFarge on the practical application of his theories. "To Meliboeus" is undoubtedly the finest poem in the number. Otherwise the verse is not distinguished. We feel keenly the absence of Mr. Hillyer. Does Mr. Rogers ("The New Shakespeare,") really think the age heroic? If so, he must surely admit that it is heroism without intelligence...
...represented the finest type of young American manhood, the type that reflects the greatest credit upon our country. He had won the highest regard of all with whom he had been brought in contact. He was an ideal soldier, gay, gallant, and ever ready for duty...