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Word: fine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular soloists of the organization deserve as much recognition as the special big-name artists. In proportion to the pleasure which they give, the individual members of the orchestra, particularly those of the wind choirs, seldom receive their due. To my mind, there is as much beauty in a fine clarinet or viola passage as in an aria performed by a good singer. And as for the horn, the "poetry and passion" of that glamorous instrument is equalled only by outstanding operatic tenors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...seven years. When it still did not work, he said, "I will not let my people down; I will prime for 70 times 7 years, and if it does not work then, at least I have made 10 million swell jobs, and anyhow I am working on a fine steam turbine up in the attic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE, INSPIRED BY THE HARVARD PUMP | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor, Maine . . . a fine night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

MOZART: QUARTET IN E FLAT FOR PIANO & STRINGS (Hortense Monath and the Pasquier Trio; Victor: 6 parts). Fine-grained, carefully-tooled performance of one of Mozart's important, though seldom played, compositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Davidson and Mr. Woodworth deserve great credit for the fine training they have given the chorus in preparing this work. The attacks were clean, the tone was pure, and there was plenty of body in the choral sections. Although the orchestra occasionally became a bit indefinite in its playing of the Gloria and the Credo, it redeemed itself gloriously in the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. The soloists on the whole sang well and with feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

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