Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs 17,000,000 units (TIME, Nov.15). A rabbit wart virus was found to weigh 20,000,000 units, a horse encephalitis virus 25,000,000. Even these monster molecules are so small that they pass through the pores of a fine filter...
Socrates had just recently recovered from the measles, and was not available. But Nina was in fine shape. While silent Pianist Socrates Birsky Okuntsoff, 6. sat with the rest, sedately attentive, golden-haired Pianist Nina Lugovoy, 8, propped herself against the piano stool so she could reach the pedals, hunched herself over the keyboard and gravely played a Loesch-horn Etude. The audience in Manhattan's Town Hall gave her a big hand. Before the last clap had died out she had already launched a vigorous performance of a Moskowsky Pantomime. Subsequent applause was deafening. Pianist Nina walked...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...FIGHT FOR LIFE-Paul de Kruif- Ear court, Brace ($3). Front-line description of the latest developments in the war against maternal mortality, tuberculosis, syphilis, infantile paralysis. Strategist as well as war correspondent. Author de Kruif fears the battle will be lost (fine armaments, men and sulfanilamide notwithstanding) without a unified command, universal draft, merciless war on the enemy within-poverty and commercialism...
Five thousand volumes, including many rare examples of fine early printing Herbert Weir Smyth '78, for 28 years Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard, have been presented to the University by his family...