Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tipped his cap to applause. Even more impressively, he won four of his first six tournaments against the best U.S. pros (TIME, June 9). Former U.S. Open Champion Lawson Little said ruefully: "He hasn't anything on anybody over here except concentration . .-. and he's the finest putter who ever putted in America...
Just once in a while there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made...
...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
Since February archeologists had been delving into a 30-foot mound in the mountains of Guatemala. This week they announced their prize discovery: "The finest single piece of Mayan jade carving ever found...
...tweedy old ladies in the gallery were horrified. One remarked to Scotland's Helen Holm, one of the quarter finalists, that the Babe was "altogether lacking in refinement." Golfer Holm cut her off: "You're speaking of the finest woman golfer that has ever been seen here." "And what if she does clown a bit?" asked the father of Golf Pro Jimmy Thomson. "That's just her way, and only an old tabby would object...