Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clever scheme for gaining arms supremacy. The second point is that Russia used generous amounts of mechanized equipment in the late struggle and is experimenting with atomic weapons today. It seems extremely unlikely that she will let outsiders convince her that huge masses of men are her finest weapon. Criticism of Soviet motives for disarmament are particularly futile at this time...
...Playboy of the Western World. Burgess Meredith in an agreeable revival of the finest of modern folk satires (TIME...
...allowed to cloud the fact that a green team, playing together for the first time, rose from the nether corners of the Ivy League doormat, where the guessers and Washington Street halfbacks had relegated it back in September, to win seven games of nine and give the University its finest state since 1931. So the copious tears that were shed in the late afternoon haze were greatly wasted. Yale had won, but many of the full-time fans were thinking about the first half at Hanover, the first ten minutes at Princeton, and the great comeback against Holy Cross...
Also in Gothic is the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, a cathedral-like structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...
Long-range plans are being made by the Glee Club, which has been ranked consistently as one of the finest choral groups in the country, for a tour of the Scandinavian countries in the summer of 1948. The club made a similar trip...