Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symbol-a bird that, when wounded by the hunter, digs itself in the weeds and dies. The hunter of the play is a young idealist who comes to a middleclass, satisfied household and splinters their illusions. In the hope that he may lead them to a newer, finer life of honesty, he tells the husband that his wife has been another's mistress. The father shuns his child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor in attendance. Roughly...
...Ferguson in Europe, said, "Probably because both Latin and Greek are rather difficult to master, students at Harvard, as well as in Liverpool, tend to avoid these studies. I find that American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such that research is made most easy." Professor Halliday was graduated from Oxford, 1908, and has since held professorships at the Universities of Glasgow and Liverpool...
...believe. As the modern university is organized, the office of President requires a combination prophet, business man, booster and expert on amortization. Dean Pound might be all of these. But he knows that the teacher is the man around whom any educational system ultimately revolves and that no finer opportunity comes to any man than to work with younger minds, to train those minds and set them thinking. New York World...
Unfortunately, it was an extremely cold morning, which meant that the Earth's atmosphere was dense and probably interfered with some of the finer scientific observations. It will be several weeks, if not months, before scientists have completely studied and correlated their photographs and observations and are ready to make public their conclusions. Only a few general facts could immediately be made known. These include...
...chemical industries are fascinating to most men as there is a constant change going on and new processes being discovered each day. To a college man who is interested in the subject I think there is no finer or more promising industry open than the chemical business and the industries connected with...