Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photographic Board offers fine training to Freshmen who wish to work in this field. With its own dark room and developing equipment and with experienced photographers already on the Board, a candidate has here a great chance for both learning the fine points of photography and doing interesting work...
...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem villagers were too poor to pay, their sheep, cattle and movable household goods to a value of $10,000 by Christian estimates were to be seized by the skirt-wearing Black Watch and carried off to the braying of bagpipes...
General effect of the new rules is that the privileges of the U. S.'s 380 transport airliners and 8,849 private planes during fine weather are better equalized than before; when weather conditions are unfavorable Federal airways are reserved for scheduled airlines. All others, unless equipped for instrument flying and with approved flight plans, must keep off the airways...
...curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...