Word: finest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public is fully aware that the King has by his bedside the finest physicians and specialists in the country, but a certain number of them are apparently dissatisfied. Every day sees new additions to the ever-growing pile of bottles, and phials, and philtres which are being stored away unopened in special rooms; for to return the medicines to the donors would hurt their feelings, and the officials of the Palace are above all things thoughtful of others...
Carboloy or widia, shaped into a cutting tool, carves through cast iron, steel, copper, glass, porcelain, bakelite, mica, rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
...Nearly half, because few Americans will dive for sponges, are Greeks. Among them the trade is of immemorial antiquity and rich with legends, reaching back to the days when divers with burnished copper bodies gleaming in the sun of the Egean plunged to their deaths in quest of the finest, most deeply hidden sponges for the toilets of haughty Livia, or that Messalina whose luxuriance scandalized even imperial Rome...
...Ever since its inception, West Virginia University, being a land grant college, has maintained not only an Agricultural Experiment Station, but a College of Agriculture as well. She has one of the finest buildings for her students in this profession as can be found. She maintains several fine farms on which these students get their practical experience, and believe me or not, it is practical...
...rich green of meadows and fields by two beautiful rivers, now covered with punts and canoes; old trees line the roads and walks, the air is sweet and clear and fresh, and the Colleges sparkle in the sunshine. It is now that one knows the High is the finest street in Europe, and that Troy could never have been more beautiful than this old city and its ancient University