Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarassment," President Pusey told the graduating class yesterday in his annual Baccalaureate Address at Memorial Church...
Arthur Radford, 63, four-star admiral (ret.), former chairman (1953-57) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one of the finest U.S. military minds, was recalled temporarily as a special Pentagon consultant to help pinch-hit for J.C.S. Chairman Nate Twining, who will be out at least another five weeks while recovering from lung-cancer surgery...
...replacing the outmoded Sabre jets flown by eight Royal Canadian Air Force overseas squadrons with 200 to 300 supersonic fighters. In their time, the Canadian-built Sabres, along with four squadrons of still useful Avro CF-100s, helped Canada's air division gain recognition as NATO's finest. But interceptors are fast becoming obsolete and the Canadian division a token force...
...those who like their shoot-'em-ups on foot instead of horseback. Some noisy nostalgia for the hard, big-city hoods of the '20s and an even harder real-life cop: Barney Ruditsky, a detective who has long since deserted New York's finest for the green-backed life of a private peeper...
From the ship captains and New England merchants, Peabody began to receive treasures of ethnology from the Pacific, most notably the exotic feather capes from Hawaii. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the Museum started off with the finest anthropological collection in the country and to this day its topmost position cannot easily be challenged...