Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest campaign against illegal parking struck the very core of undergraduate life this week when a squad of Cambridge's finest towed away the car of Stu Bottle '50, president of the Student Apathy League...
Another such painting, which might strike laymen as being neither better nor worse than the rest, won this year's top prize. Insisted Director McKinney: "The finest picture in the whole show." It was a sodden, ragged and barren landscape under a strawberry-tinted sky, done by a soft-spoken 32-year-old Virginian named Mitchell Jamieson. To Painter Jamieson, in Paris last week on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study European masters, the news hit the spot. "I planned on going to an art exhibition with my wife this afternoon," he said when he was asked about...
...Battle of Britain raged, some 4,500 airmen were pulled out of their wrecked and flaming planes. Of the 600 cases that Sir Archibald took care of, 200 needed total reconstruction jobs on their faces and hands. His wartime hospital has developed into the finest plastic surgery center in Europe...
...Proconsul Verres, a grasping fellow who rose to the governorship of Sicily, "possessed probably the finest eye for works of art of anyone in the ancient world...
...message, pried up after many heaves of grandiloquent rhetoric, might better have been left buried. But among the shorter lyrics that follow it are several which may give the reader an extraordinary sense ot pleasure. For, slight though they are, they announce the survival of one of the finest of American lyric talents...