Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fitzgerald. The two ran close together over the last half of the five mile course until Benjamin made a decisive spurt within 400 yards of the finish. Fitzgerald's second place time of 25 min., 50 secs. was only three seconds off the old record and represents his finest effort of this year...
...happened to be a masterpiece. Pather Panchali is perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film...
...winter he developed it into an unconventional ten scene form, and renamed it Welcome to Our City as a concession to the remaining vestiges of Cambridge abolutionism. It was performed in Agassiz Theater on May 12 and 13, 1923, and is generally thought to have been the finest produced by the 47 Workshop...
...Best Sells Better. What sells best all over the world are the finest pieces in top condition. "It's easier to sell what I'd call a blue chip in antiques even at a high price than a cheaper, less satisfactory one," says Samuels. Almost every item in the current French & Co. exhibition is worth 20% to 50% more than it cost at purchase; some have appreciated four and five times their cost...
...World of Strangers, by Nadine Gordimer. South Africa's finest novelist writes of her homeland's direst hour...