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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Year of the Mechanical Rabbit | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Your Tail Is Gone." Up to the Valkyrie's starboard side sidled a needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter flown by the nation's-and perhaps the world's-finest test pilot, Joseph A. Walker of NASA, who in 25 flights in the X-15 rocket plane had flown higher (354,200 ft.) and faster (4,104 m.p.h.) than man had ever gone in a winged ship. Walker, who was preparing to join the B70 program, had been flying "chase" behind the Valkyrie to observe it in operation. Next, an Air Force F-5 fighter-bomber tucked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Fall of the Valkyrie | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...sense out of the statistics. First, it is often said that competition improves with each incoming freshman class. A look at comparative freshmen records over the past few years, however, shows that yearly variations are insignificant. A second hypothesis blames marriage for the disaffection of many of Harvard's finest athletes. It may have been for some -- sprinter Aggrey A word, for example, during his senior year. And yet, Coach John Yovicsin says that none of his married players have stopped their college football or have been hampered in their style. Not one married junior varsity player has thrown...

Author: By Boisfouillet JONES Jr., | Title: THE SENIOR SLUMP: Upperclassmen Fade Away in Athletics | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...CRIMSON under the direction of R. H. Stiles, Dwight Ingram and Francis G.C. O'Neil moved into its new building on Plympton St. on Friday, November 19, 1915. On the next, day Captain Edward W. Mahan had the finest day of his football career as he scored four touchdowns to help Harvard defeat...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

...Follett) who, at the time of Barbara's birth (1914), decided that their little girl was much too sensitive and gifted to run with the herd of ordinary children that attended public school. So they kept her at home, where they could be sure she received only the finest instruction: their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy in a Hothouse | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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