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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albert T. Patrick had forged Rice's will, hired Butler Charles F. Jones to hasten his inheritance. Patrick's crime was almost perfect ; he erred only in passing a bad check soon after his client's death.* By that slim margin, the Southwest nearly lost its finest college: rigorous, little-known Rice University (enrollment: 1,963), a 300-acre oasis of lush lawns and cool buildings that seem downright alien in raucous Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Call to the Semifrontier | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...week U.S.-Canadian tour that ends this week, and few who recall the Philharmonic's visit to the U.S. six years ago are deceived by Von Karajan's modesty: to him clearly belongs the credit for putting the Berlin Philharmonic once again among the world's finest symphony orchestras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Orchestra Builder | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...complain that they are only blank symbols in a house of mirrors, and that Resnais has asked the audience to give his film meaning where none exists. It is a just complaint against most of the New Wave, but for those willing to make an effort, Hiroshima is the finest of its kind, and a masterpiece in its own right...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Hiroshima: Mon Amour | 11/22/1961 | See Source »

...ninth-ranked Georgia Tech was surprised by a fired-up Tennessee 10-6. "We'll be home for Christmas,'' moaned Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty after Purdue edged his Spartans 7-6 in a jarring battle of defenses. In the east, Columbia, fielding its finest team since Lou Little's 1933 Rose Bowl Champions, beat Dartmouth 35-14 and moved into leadership of the Ivy League as Harvard unseated league-leading Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...does not do what it was intended to do, or even what it starts out to do. By posing questions more suited to a medieval morality play than to a fantasy of love and seduction, Bergman has lost his chance to produce what could have been one of the finest foreign films of the year...

Author: By J. MICHAEL Crichton, | Title: The Devil's Eye | 11/14/1961 | See Source »

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