Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improving forward line that finally enabled the varsity soccer team to gain a creditable 6-2-3 record as well as a 4 to 2 win over the Elis. The season also saw the appearance of sophomore Lanny Keyes who may well turn out to be one of the finest fullbacks Coach Bruce Munro has had in a long time...
...varsity hockey team must be termed as the year's most puzzling squad. By all rights, this should have been the finest sextet seen at Harvard in a long time. The entire 1956-57 team, which went to the NCAA finals in Colorado, was back with the exception of the goalie, Jim Bailey. Harry Pratt proved himself an able replacement for Bailey as the season progressed and Bruce Gillie and Mike Graney came up from last year's freshman team to give added depth. But while the sextet won the Ivy League and eventually went to Minneapolis...
...fine pitchers, Dave Brigham and relief ace Gerry Emmet, a steady catcher in John Davis, and the combined hitting of Frank Saia, Kent Hathaway, Bob Cleary, and Tom Bergantino. No matter how the final two games turn out against Yale, this must be rated as Coach Norm Shepard's finest season...
ASTRONOMY. Behind, but determined to catch up. The new Biurakan Observatory in Armenia has one of the world's largest telescopes, and one of the world's finest libraries in the field. The observatory's head: Viktor Ambartsumian, the first Soviet scientist since World War II to become a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer...