Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity lacrosse team spent a week following some of the nation's finest opposition around the green fields of the Southern Territory, picking up sun tan and bruises and perhaps a little wisdom. At week's end, they piled into their bus and followed the blizzard from Annapolis to Boston. Road time...
More than 1100 of the finest track men in the nation competed in the second annual Marine Corps School Relays, held in a pouring rain that turned the track into a virtual lake...
India's hotels in New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay are on a par with the Western world's finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...
...bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along...
Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample...