Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world's most distinguished poet and literary critic, one of England's most conservative conservatives, and its most brilliant spokesman for Anglo-Catholicism, which he adopted in 1927. His finest critical works (Selected Essays; The Idea of a Christian Society) were addressed exclusively to literary and religious intellectuals...
This pebble is as big as an Idaho potato, and one of the finest ever brought to light; A party of University geologists found it this summer while digging in eastern France...
...Yale, when a second-rate law school and a third-rate medical school ("Starved and cold-shouldered," roared Angell) rose to take their places among the finest in the U.S., and when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
...women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
Henry Foster, Hugh Foster, Captain Jim M. Kittrick, and Joe Clark will represent Harvard against a field containing the finest college players in the least...