Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to Dublin went Statesman "Dev," confident that he had come out on the long end. Although no definite agreements were reached, he had a sop for everyone. To his chief opposition, the Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, he could point out the embryonic trade pacts. To the fiercely nationalistic Sinn Feiners he could recall his "32 counties or nothing." To the British he could offer his readiness to shelve partition for a practical settlement...
...fine state of agitation, True Confessions was trying to collect evidence that True Story has become too enthusiastic about what ordinarily passes as innocent trade practice. Mr. Macfadden's True Story has 265 boy sales organizers who double as field representatives to see that the magazine is properly displayed on newsstands. On its regular force True Confessions employs only about a dozen field representatives, having no boy sales organization. In a long message to wholesalers last week, True Confessions complained that "organizers have been covering up copies of True Confessions on the newsstands . . . and have . . . thrown them...
...white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had a fine time...
...University: often by extensive use of the tutoring schools. This group of individuals, either because it is too lazy to use its own brains, or because it lacks the ability to cope with college problems, does not belong in an institute of higher learning. Many of these men possess fine ability along other lines, and should be prevented from wasting this ability in work for which they are not suited...
...objective is determined and fostered by the literary criticisms which he reads in the newspapers and magazines, by the instruction he receives in college in literary appreciation and fine writing. How extensive, then, it this field of trade publishing, and what are its employment possibilities...