Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavalierly? By saying, "those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames or simply stay down on the farm," you make Iowa State sound like a one-horse (or cow) institution. Actually, it is among the very finest in the country in engineering, home economics, chemistry and physics...
...clustered islets of Murano, a short gondola ride from Venice, master glassblowers have huffed and puffed since the 13th century, producing some of the world's finest glass. For centuries. Murano glassmakers isolated themselves from alien ideas, but lately the masters have been experimenting with a new form-a collaboration between glassblowers and great modern painters...
...paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid me $75,000for Spellbound, and his net profit was about $3,000,000. I wrote Notorious for RKO and the studio paid me $75,000, which was peanuts compared with the $4,000,000 profit on the film...
...under tyranny, are particularly gripping against the background of present-day China. Although Pound, now 68, was charged with wartime sedition in 1945 and confined to Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital as "mentally incompetent.'' he proves once again that he is one of the finest U.S. poets alive...
...Japanese say that in the finest tea one can taste the water with which it was made. Lady of Beauty is just such a subtle cup of literary tea. In it, Kikou Yamata, daughter of a Japanese diplomat and a French mother, tells the story of Nobuko Hayashi, aloof, highborn and exquisite, and how the war racked and finally killed her without using a bullet or a bomb. At once surface and symbol, Lady of Beauty is a quiet requiem for a culture as well as a person, by a mourner who remains charmingly alive...