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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Team captain Fred Howard turned in perhaps the finest single performance of the day by breaking his own University record in the half-mile. Howard, who had already taken a fourth in the 440 an hour earlier, clipped six-tenths of a second off the old mark to finish the course in 1:51.4. He added his day by turning in a 48.8 second leg for the mile relay team, which finished second behind Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Take Triangular | 5/8/1961 | See Source »

...spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just be the finest classical male dancer now before the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Danseur Noble | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

VARSITY LACROSSE, one of the finest teams in the nation, meets Princeton in the biggest game of the season for coach Bruce Munro's high-scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...garnished with oranges, the darker-hued champagne version with strawberries. In the State Dining Room there was a mammoth buffet of chicken à la king, roast beef, pheasant, tongue, turkey and ham. Footman John Pye, a White House servant since the days of Woodrow Wilson, declared it the finest spread of his tenure. By 11:45 the presidential host (who learned of the Cuban debacle just before the party began) had taken his leave to spend long night hours consulting with his top advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Interlude | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Finding out will not be easy. At 21, after two tune-up seasons in the bushes, Leftfielder Yastrzemski (pronounced Yah-strem-skee) is the finest outfield prospect in the American League. Boston sportswriters already are comparing him to Ted Williams, and the authoritative Sporting News has all but conceded him its Rookie of the Year award. In spring training, ex-Slugger Williams watched Yastrzemski take batting practice, exulted: "The boy has everything-poise a good eye, smoothness. He'll hit .320 in his first year." The prediction seems reasonable. At Raleigh, in the Class B Carolina League. Yastrzemski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Rookie | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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