Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forever commemorated in Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, research arm of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases (TIME, June 27, 1949). Individually, each has set up a namesake foundation to advance the education and careers of promising young scientists. Sloan and Kettering are alike in enjoying superb physical health-better than Stagg's when he was their...
...South, a new challenger appeared for the Southeast Conference title when Louisiana State sprang Backs Billy Cannon and Red Brodnax loose on Miami in a 41-0 slaughter. Less impressive was Defending Champion Auburn, defensively superb but unimaginative on offense in a plodding 8-0 victory over Kentucky. ¶ Wisconsin's crunching defense dogged Purdue passers all day, cashed two pass interceptions and a blocked kick for scores in a 31-6 victory. ¶ On the West Coast, Halfback Dick Bass maintained his lead as the nation's leading ground-gainer, averaged 11.3 yds. a carry...
...Chinese food is the Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...
Your photo of Agatha Christie [Sept. 15] was as surprising as the unique endings by this superb suspense-and-mystery author. As usual, she had me completely fooled...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. This superb novel shuttles between the lyrical, the hilarious and the horrifying to tell of a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...