Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second only to President Roosevelt, Mr. Winant has seemed to us the personification of the finest part of America's character. We shall miss that tall, thoughtful, awkward-seeming...
Reporting to the Freshman Class Committee last night on the results of a week's hunt for bands to play at the Freshman Jubilee April 26 or 27. Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49 stated that Randy Brooks, whom he described as "one of the finest band leaders available in Boston at any price," was so far a good possibility...
...Conference Plan, the friendly relationship between students and professors-some of the finest and most learned men in the educational world-the classroom, the athletic field, the Chapel: these to us are Rollins. We hope . . . you will come to understand and appreciate...
Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, the President's new Ambassador to Russia, had the finest of references-his last boss, Ike Eisenhower, once called him one of history's great chiefs of staff. Affable, determined, sometimes furious "Beedle" Smith coordinated the plans and handled the administrative details of Eisenhower's campaigns from North Africa to Germany. Besides that, he kept peace among the U.S. and British officers involved in those joint complications. The State Department was getting one of the Army's best diplomats...
...market, Jess Birdwell met a gentleman whose card was inscribed: "Professor Waldo Quigley, Traveling Representative, Payson and Clarke. The World's Finest Organs. Also Sheet Music and Song Books." "How many reeds in a Payson and Clarke [organ]?" Jess asked him. "Forty-eight, Brother Birdwell," replied Professor Quigley, "not counting the tuba mirabilis. . . . Those reeds duplicate the human throat. They got timbre," he added ("landing on the French word the way a hen lands on the water"). "How many stops?" asked Jess. "Eight," said the professor. "And that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child...