Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman Baker was heralded as the finest distance runner to ever enter Harvard. He had run a 4:14.9 mile a 9:14 two-mile as an English schoolboy. He captained the freshman cross-country team and led the Crimson pack most of the fall...
...today in New Harven, the Yardling will battle the undefeated Yalies in what promises to be the offensive duel of the year. Actually, it could boil down to a battle of stars; Crimson scatback and captain Vic Gatto against Bullpup passing wonder Brian Dowling, the finest freshman quarterback at Yale since Tom Singleton...
...Porsche has a "mystical appeal" [Nov. 5]. If you equate mysticism with pure unadulterated pleasure and appreciation of driving the finest of its kind, you are right. Until you sit in the cockpit of this little giant killer and push the tach up to 5,500 r.p.m. in second or third gear, not to mention fourth, you will never know how delightfully sensuous driving...
...necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
Poor Ernie. Even his best friends won't tell him. By rough count, Terrell hit Chuvalo 400-odd times smack in the face over 15 rounds last week-with a left jab that was curiously described by sportswriters as "savage," "snapping," "a bullwhip" and "the finest jab any heavyweight has shown since Joe Louis." Curiously, because Chuvalo didn't even blink. The best blow of the night was a butt by the Canadian that opened up a one-inch gash over Terrell's left eye. "He butted me deliberately," Terrell complained afterward. "He stepped on my toes...