Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), Saarinen may well be right in calling this latest effort "perhaps the finest thing that we have done...
...high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples...
...Brown's backfield, which flanks stars like Finney and Choquette with two excellent halfbacks--John McTigue and Bob Carlin--has been rated the finest in the Ivy League by Yovicsin. It appears clearly to outclass the varsity's starting backfield, which for the first time this season includes three sophomores: Charlie Ravenel, Bruce MacIntyre, and Larry Repsher. On the strength of this advantage, the Bruins have to be conceded one-touchdown favorites...
Brown has a predominantly sophomore team with an excellent goalie, mediocre backs, and a below-par line. John Master, the Bruin goalie, is supposed to be the finest sophomore prospect Brown has come up with in many years. Dick Press and Bill Stamper are the fullbacks, but behind them there is no one to fill in. Captain Dick Ramsden will head a halfback line along with Sal Rena and Foster Ballard, while Arnie Hetzer, Howard Whitcomb, Bill Vandentorn, Bill Pearson, and Al Tapper make up the forward line...
...young Norman McGowan's finest hour when he was called upon in 1949 to be Churchill's valet and provide some of these necessary things. Recollecting his three years of service with the grand old man, McGowan has written an ingratiating book, seemingly almost by inadvertence. It is the English story on the classic theme of master and man that has been exploited by everyone from Shakespeare to Wodehouse. But no Jeeves is McGowan, no Wooster Churchill...