Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, the finest motion-picture criticism that has ever been published...
...Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with so high) to write it. The Psalmus Hungaricus that he wrote for the occasion is still considered by some critics the finest choral work of the 20th Century...
...Readers of this journal will recall the interesting account that appeared some time ago of the experiments in which pieces of toast and marmalade were dropped on various samples of carpet arranged in order of quality from coir [coconut fiber] matting to the finest Kirman rugs; the marmalade-downwards incidence was found to vary directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously...
...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...
...dismiss "bebop" so lightly [TIME, May 17]. After all, jazz is the only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...