Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest art deals of its kind in the past quarter-century, the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson Collection, one of the finest private ingatherings in America, was sold this week for $3,250,000. Made up mostly of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, the collection was doomed when the Robinsons were divorced last August and the California courts directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings...
...sometimes settle accounts with the country doctor's traditional basket of eggs or a fresh-caught sockeye salmon. Last week the islanders found a different way of thanking "our beloved Doc." At Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual fashion when something makes him particularly happy-he dances his Tri-Pacer over the blue waters...
...field of the national squash championships now being played in New York traditionally comprises the finest players in the country, both in the individual and team championships, and this year is no exception...
...ways it is strange to us, it is also beautiful like the title that flashes on the screen after Gorky's last meeting with the anarchist: "Thus ended his friendship with the first of that innumerable company of people--strangers in that land--among whom are now numbered its finest sons...
Since the Mercedes-Benz manufacturers decided to break up their factory racing team and coast on their winning reputation, only Ferrari seems to be in a position to challenge the new Maserati. But even the finest racing machine in the world would be nothing without the finest drivers. Maserati, fortunately, has the two best men in the business: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and England's Stirling Moss. At 46, Fangio, who got his start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed...