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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underfed Boy. At a rock-hard 187 Ibs., Saimes looks like an underfed boy alongside such hulking Big Ten fullbacks as his own Spartan rival, Ron Hatcher (220 Ibs.), and Ohio State's Bob Ferguson (225 lbs.). Coach Duffy Daugherty insists that Saimes is the finest fullback he has ever coached at Michigan State. "I've said it before, and I'll say it again," says Daugherty. "George Saimes could play any position on this team-including quarterback and tackle-and I know he would if I asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Iconoclast | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...Care of Dependent Children. That meeting established the seemingly simple principle that a child was better off with a family, even if it was not his own, than he was in the cold and impersonal atmosphere of an institution. As Roosevelt said, "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children: Lost & Found | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...temperate latitudes, most of the dust, and part of the cloud, never gets higher than some 35,000 ft. This collection of nuclear fission products is the tropospheric fallout, and since the troposphere is the part of the earth's atmosphere that contains rain clouds, even its finest particles of radioactive material are likely to be carried back to the ground by falling snowflakes or water droplets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fission & Fallout | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season, he already has run up 77 points-33 in a single game. Says Coach Lombardi: "Paul is tremendous down near the goal line. He's the finest man I've ever seen when he gets down there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Indispensable Man | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...almost every preseason poll, could well give Coach Jerry Burns a big winner in his freshman year. A decisive 27-8 victory over Indiana last week strengthened Iowa's chances. In Quarterback Wilburn Hollis, Halfbacks Larry Ferguson and Sammie Harris and Fullback Joe Williams. Burns has the finest backfield in the Big Ten-but his bench is weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Good Big Ten | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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