Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has been the successful bidder among many institutions on a collection of minerals, regarded by scientists as one of the finest lots of specimens ever assembled by one man, representing the life-work of the late Elwood P. Hancock, of Burlington, N. J. Being a talented artist and cabinet carver by profession, he increased the attractiveness of the specimens by working out the natural crystals on the face...
...third phase of the war began on July 1, when, with the armies of France, the finest troops in the world, the British went over their parapets on the 16-mile Some front. When the winter hardens the water-covered fields of northern France, we will undoubtedly hear some more news from that front, when the 'big push' starts again and restores Belgium and the northern provinces to their rightful owners...
...defence, however, he was every-where, in fact so good at one stage that Haughton said in his caustic criticism after the game, that Legore executed the finest defensive play he had ever witnessed...
...integrity of Helas secured, the interest of the people gravitated back to the runners quite naturally. Our country saved, we are awarding the same preeminence to football. There is something in it. One race finished, why not on with the next? And the Harvard team consists of our finest, our biggest, our bravest, our Chosen Ones. The pride of Princeton goes down before them. Sentiment surges and trembles with the waving of grappling arms in the line...
...Widener Library has received and is now unpacking the Lincoln Library of the late Alonzo Rothschild, which is reputed as one of the finest collections of its kind in existence. Mr. Rothschild had spent thirty years in the collection of this library, and it occupied about 152 feet of shelves. It represents the volumes which Mr. Rothschild used in the preparation of his two books on Lincoln, "Honest Abe" and "Lincoln, Master of Men." The collection is the gift of his widow and will be placed in the American History Department, where it will be known as the Rothschild Lincoln...