Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your superb tribute to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in TIME [May 25] may I, for the record, add one of Dr. Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City
...British Ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice was prone to reveries, during which he was apt to forget that he was attending an official function and think he was watching a play. When, at Princeton, a bishop intoned a superb benediction, Spring-Rice was so impressed by the "performance" that he brought his hands together with a resounding clap," and was only saved from further applause by Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who nimbly pinned the ambassadorial elbows together from behind...
...Cambridge Quartet include Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...
...Bulldogs might have clinched the game there, but superb defense work by the midfields, the points, and goalie Steve Den Hartog prevented any immediate scoring. Waring counted again to make the half-time score...
...Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician." One symptom of this change is the fact that Booker T. Washington, a superb tactician whom most Negro leaders in the '20s and '30s denounced as an "Uncle Tom," is being rediscovered by Negroes as a great...