Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grind of the period. He cared nothing for sports, clubs, clothes, or any of the finer things his alma mater had to offer...
Thus, in making the stick more feasible for the player, opportunity for a development of a finer technique was given. The beautiful stick handling of the modern game is one of the most attractive features of lacrosse, as well as being one of the most difficult departments of the game. It takes from two to three years for a player to acquire the ability to handle his stick with facility, and to catch and throw the ball with speed and assurance. Teams clever enough to keep the ball in their possession, have a big advantage over players who are inferior...
...humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
...indeed should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live upon them. Charlotte is a goodly place --though rather cold in the winter...