Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist and reared, "Well, by God, it's just as I told You-we should never have accepted the book." Profits seemed almost indecent to these men. They were among the finest scholars our country has known, living in a tradition of pure learning and inspired by what they considered worthy and fine, not by what would sell...
...tomorrow, but it has little chance of running away with the race. They will face a stronger Princeton team, and a Yale team which has been strengthened by the addition of a half-miler, Mike Stanley, from their scratched two-mile relay team. Stanley is considered one of the finest half-milers in the East...
...public view in Manhattan this week were two of the U.S.'s finest private collections...
...Isaac Stern is one of the world's finest violinists. He has a big tone, an impressive technique and immense warmth. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week, Stern and his fiddle were in top form. Playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under George Szell, Stern flaked warm, buttery tones off the violin with deep tenderness. As his bow drew the music from the strings, his body seemed to play its own accompaniment. Now he rose on his toes, now he shrugged with a phrase, now he twisted and bent...
...week to two months in spent, in the most common form of training program, in each of the divisions of the bank instructing the executive candidate in the finest details of the running the establishment. A month in the mail, bookkeeping, statement, and credit departments shows the "flow" of business form receipt to payment...