Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the last 20 years, some 40 of Zurbaran's paintings have come to light. His best are flat, angular studies of lean-jawed monks; even his paintings of women seem chopped out with a chisel. Depth and perspective interested him little. One of his finest, St. Serapion, is in the Wadsworth Atheneum at Hartford, Conn...
...could justify the use of the overseas libraries to disseminate material harmful to the United States . . . [But] the American overseas libraries do not belong to a congressional committee or to the State Department. They belong to the whole American people, who are entitled to have them express their finest ideals of responsible freedom...
...were also necessary. The living room was stripped of furniture to make room for a fullscale, club-car set, modeled after that on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited. The Pennsy, blushing with pleasure, supplied standard lounge-car chairs from the Congressional, along with the road's finest glassware and all the other trappings. At the last minute someone noticed that the club car had no Pennsy rug. Executives of the railroad found they had none in Washington storage. Miss Rountree's friends knew what to do about that: they threatened to get a rug from...
...Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City
...nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. . . . Between his becoming undersecretary and now, the free world was forced to recognize the danger of modern Russia. As Secretary, Acheson was the one primarily responsible for solving the vast problems that appeared during the transition from hope to reality. He had to set the very premises of foreign policy...