Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available minute to get an entry in shape. Minutes lost in the pits might well decide the winner...
...review of Wages of Fear is one of the finest pieces of writing I have read in many moon. I had the misfortune of seeing this picture before reading your review, I must agree that ... its message is "hate America...
...means civilized. Then came a change as sudden as if supernatural culture-bringers had landed in a flying saucer. Without transitional stages, so far as diggers can determine, the Egyptians were building great palaces of brick and stone. They had effective copper tools, including wood saws and the finest needles. They worked with fine artistry in wood, ivory, leather, textiles, metals, precious stones. They had a fully formed written language and papyrus to write it on. Their religion formed the principal features that would dominate Egypt for 3,000 years. They had skillful agriculture, a centralized government and a leisured...
...enjoying all the secrecy, could not resist hinting from London: "I consider this one of my major works." Epstein is apt to consider all of his works "major," but this time Philadelphia agreed. Said R. Sturgis Ingersoll, president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: "The works may be the finest Epstein has ever done . . . We believe we have acquired Epstein at his very best...
Salzburg-born Herbert von Karajan, 46, began his career as a pianist, became conductor of a small opera house (at Ulm) when he was 21. Today he is regarded as one of the world's finest conductors, but personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some...