Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo the neighbors used to step aside to avoid his arrogant, abusive snarls and vicious manner, but none dared criticize Fifty Bells; he was a soldier trained to fight for the Emperor. "He is the finest shepherd dog in Japan," said Kazuo Akai, Fifty Bells's devoted master. But despite the boast and despite his own arrogant strutting, Fifty Bells never got a chance to show his mettle...
...defense last week. Their feeling was that maybe Rodzinski had thrown a little money around, but he had built the orchestra again into a first-rate symphony, using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version of Elektra with Marjorie Lawrence, and Tristan und Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad. He had given the musicians some rough treatment at rehearsals -but no conductor was ever fired for that, so long as he produced good music...
...board and school superintendent will agree that preparation for science means hard work in mathematics but are unwilling to admit that the comparable disciplines of literature . . . are necessary to a liberal education. Though the remark may sound austere, it is still true that the study of Greek offers the finest discipline that may be had in literature...
...once wrote, "that the heresy of heresies is a worldly spirit." The Serious Call, says McNeill, has been criticized for its "one-sided emphasis on good works" and "lack of stress on Scripture." But it influenced many. No less a critic than Dr. Samuel Johnson called it "the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language...
...Scott, "we believe it should be done at least by a separate order, and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour." Some M.P.s laughed, and Lord William rounded on them. "I see nothing to laugh about," he cried. "It is an insult to one of the finest foods produced in the northern hemisphere...