Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triumph over the Green, Mac tied a Harvard record, with three touchdown catches, the third a diving grab between two defenders. Against the Bruins, number 81 hauled in six passes to help Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki to his finest...
...Without question, Alex Nahigian is the finest teacher of the game in the collegiate ranks today. And his record backs this up," Dave Gavitt, Providence athletic director, said yesterday...
Many of the finest works went to German museums eager to recover treasures from the German past and take up the Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
Almost lost in the flying millions was the memory of the man responsible. Born in Frankfurt in 1883, Von Hirsch began working at the turn of the century in the Offenbacher leather firm owned by his uncle. He eventually built it into one of the finest such companies in Europe. (The Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo...
...seconds of sustained agony in a moderate headwind to cover the unusually slow course, but Harvard was not to be denied its revenge. Parker would say afterwards that his outsized team (Yale averaged 10 pounds more per man) won on courage and raw determination, giving him "by far the finest effort any boat ever made for me. They guys rowed a gutsy race all the way," Paker said...