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Word: finest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard can offer not only its 350 years of academic excellence, but a hockey program that is one of the finest in the nation and a coach who starred for Harvard and played in the Olympics...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Juggling Bright-Eyed Prospects | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...Lamprey, of the World Wildlife Fund, flies in to Merz's sanctuary that morning to ask her to accept another baby rhino, which was just orphaned by poachers in the Masai Mara. Lamprey is a mandarin who urbanely calls down apocalypse in a voice that sounds the way the finest, oldest brandy tastes. The visitor privately bestows a title upon him: the Duke of Extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a beautiful missionary, played by Katherine Hepburn. Shot mostly on location in the Dark Continent, The African Queen proves that, in the hands of a superb director, the simplest plots can become high entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEWITT | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...follow this advice, you will miss some of the finest acting to ever grace the Loeb Mainstage. In the past, the Achilles Heel of the ART has been in the performers. As Brustein himself has complained, it is nearly impossible to keep good actors in Cambridge with New York just a shuttle away. For some reason, though, a covey of new and returning talent has decided to roost at the ART this season, revitalizing a company that was moribund two years...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, EDITOR EMERITUS | Title: STAGE | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...slick guard's 22 points per Ivy contest lead the league, and his performance Saturday night was the finest Harvard has seen all year long...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Column One | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

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