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Word: fined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only match. There are many subjects in the curricula. Cambridge would expect to win the mathematics and the principal events in all sorts of "stinks." Oxford would count upon the Litterae humaniores. But there is no telling. It is very easy for good men to train too fine; and not a few of the best fall to "come off" in competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...Sachem Voorhis meant was that there is such a thing as the Society of St. Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tammany | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 50th Impotency | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Union Artistique or Fine Arts Club. How the Coolidge Administration proposes to deal with this property in the manner of Louis XV was crisply revealed at Washington, last week, by Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Foreign (Diplomatic and Consular) Service Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Embassy | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Cass Gilbert, architect D. Fine Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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