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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other league, a clash between two such talented teams would surely decide the conference championship. Not in the Big Ten, where bone-rattling football is the standard weekly fare. Season after season, the Big Ten play the finest football in the nation. This year, no fewer than four Big Ten teams (Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State) have been ranked among the nation...

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

...David Niven turns out an excellent performance as a college professor with a talent for blowing things up. And Anthony Quinn, as a Cretan guerilla, is in consistently top form. His bit in the interrogation scene should win over anyone not already convinced that he is among the finest actors in this country...

Author: By J. MICHAEL Crichton, | Title: The Guns of Navarone | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

Last week, on loan from the Victoria and Albert, which now regards them as among its finest possessions, 135 of those drawings were on display at the National Gallery in Washington. Their creator was Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose own native Venice did not begin to rediscover him until more than a century after his death. The drawings are not the finished kind that Tiepolo did for sale, but they are perhaps more interesting. They are notes for paintings and frescoes, ideas jotted down as quickly as they welled up in Tiepolo's prodigiously restless mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ten-Cent Tiepolos | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

BRATTLE: One of the finest films to emerge from postwar Poland, ASHES AND DIAOMNDS is beautifully put-together story of a disillusioned resistance fighter near the end of the Second World has been acclaimed by nearly everyone, including the Crimson Evenings at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 October 14. It is followed by Vitorrio deSica's latest triumph of acting and direction, GENERAL DELLA ROVERE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKLY CALENDAR | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Biggest Moments. But as a ballplayer, Maris still is no match for Babe Ruth. A rollicking, muffin-headed giant (6 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.) with the slender legs of a showgirl, Ruth was the finest baseball player who ever lived. As a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, he won 46 games in two seasons, pitched 29 consecutive scoreless World Series innings-a record that still stands. As an outfielder, he joined a Yankee club that had no ballpark and had never won a pennant; his presence (backed up by the formidable figure of Lou Gehrig) turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of a Hero | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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