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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the finest possible way of closing the story," says Fujita. "It's in the finest of samurai traditions to pledge peace and friendship by submitting the sword to a former enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: Raider's Return | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...number two slot. Livingood was 1 down with four holes to go, and then he made an Arnold Palmer drive as he fired two birds and two pars to win on the eighteenth with a twenty-foot bird. Harvard's number three man, Bob Holt on, played his finest golf of the season as he carded a finest golf of the season as he carded a 72 and smashed his opponent...

Author: By Ronald G. Strackbein, | Title: Dartmouth Clubs Golf Team by 5-2 Margin | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

Jacqueline Tabachnick, as Hesione Hushabye, handles these passage well, especially her speech at the end of Act I. She does nearly everything else well, too; her scene with Ellie and the sleeping Boss Mangan is the show's finest comic moment. Susan Schwartz (Ellie Dunn), Pat Fay (Lady Utterword), and Joseph Boyd (Randall Utterword) are competent performers, who only occasionally suffer lapses of concentration...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Heartbreak House | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...housing modern biology, chemistry, and geology facilities-- will be built during the next three years, and additional buildings may also be constructed. "The turning of this earth marks a new era in Yale science," Griswold said, "as era in which Yale at long last will have not only the finest geology building in the country, but also a science center... second to none in quality." The center was designed by the noted American architect Philip Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HAVEN, CONN. | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...restore happiness, Kerr prescribes purposeless fun. It should be as preposterous as possible, with rules as capricious as the one that dictates keeping the arms limp in an Irish jig. Art is the finest form of fun so long as it is not overburdened by a "message." Americans must learn to relax and surrender to contemplation, which is "almost like falling in love." When they have exhausted the pleasure of comic books, they will automatically graduate to Sherlock Holmes, then to Shakespeare, without having to ponder whether it has all been worthwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: In Praise of Uselessness | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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