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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation, alumni, and other persons who, having visited the Center, and became interested in its work, seek through donations to increase its facilities. Berrien estimates that 8,000 to 10,000 people, not different ones of course, passed through the Center last year. The Center boasts one of the finest foreign grammar text libraries in the country and teachers from nearby high schools and colleges frequently visit the Center to select the book they plan to use in their courses...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...ready for a party, washing the fine crystal, putting a high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...paper the B.U. squad is easily the finest hockey team in the New England area. It has Ike Bevins now in his third official year (his fourth unofficially) playing in the goal along with what amounts to the very same set of forwards and defensemen as last year...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Meets BU Six in Arena Tonight | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...indication of the all-around quality of the Terrier team is that Jack Garrity, brother of Harvard's Bill Garrity, and considered by some the finest American college player around, is slated to start on the second line for B.U. He is a wing...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Meets BU Six in Arena Tonight | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine Rubenses, six Velasquezes, Dürer's big, bloody Martyrdom of the 10,000 Christians and Vermeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Crush & Culture | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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