Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death...
...Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its gallery for about a week one of the finest Florentine paintings that has come to America in recent years. It is the well-known large tondo, painted in oils on panel, of the "Madonna Adoring the Child," a typical Florentine work of the late 15th century, by Piero di Lorenzo, known as Piero di Cosimo (1462-1520). It will be recalled that Piero di Cosimo is chosen by George Eliot in "Romola" as the typical Florentine artist...
...thousand trained officers and twenty-five thousand trained men. An equal shortage in the army would not be dangerous, with volunteer organizations upon which to draw. But in the Navy it means a serious impairment of the fighting powers of that organization which has been called the finest for its constituent units on the seas...
...Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost unnecessary if all we want is to defend our coast"? The oceans have always constituted, and always will constitute, our first line of defence; the tremendous significance of thin asset becomes quite apparent when it is remembered that the finest navy in the world could make no landing at Gallipoli and has not been able to bombard a single German town...
...embraces more than 2,000 pieces, almost entirely native to the state of New Jersey. Mr. Hancock covered every section of the state in his search, and discovered a new mineral, to which his name was given by the Museum of Natural History of New York. Many of the finest specimens were obtained in the vicinity of the zinc mines at Franklin Furnace...