Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge of musical symmetry was lamentably deficient. Four is, and has always been, the correct number. The better informed monarchs of today, care they to importune the music of sweet strings, always summon four and frequently, it is said, call for the Flonzaleys by name. There are few finer fiddlers than these quick-fingered gentlemen. Last week they gave a concert in Manhattan...
...difference between professional baseball and college baseball is that the finer points are stressed more in the former. A college team seldom meets an opponent more than once in a season, but in a major league where the teams meet each other many times each season a close study is made of each man. Many people think that a college team plays harder than a professional nine, but I have not found...
...whole carload of beer and finer intoxicants rolled in, in connection with the scandalous midnight proceedings by authorities in Washington 30 years ago, fastening the name Rainier upon the mountain, thereby prostituting this noble mountain to be an advertising agency for a brand of intoxicating liquor; such are the two things whose memory is perpetuated in this insulting name upon America's grandest mountain ? the British marauder's atrocities and a brand of lager beer...
Many gala caps and gowns rustled in the church. One so garbed rose from her seat by the old walnut-paneled wall as President Murlin read: "Grace Goodhue Coolidge; Student, university graduate, teacher; daughter, wife, mother; in every station exemplifying the finer qualities of mind and heart we most admire in women; your own works praise you; you have gained the confidence, admiration and love of the American people . . ." Going forward, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge received in her hands a script, and upon her shoulders a purple hood faced with red and white, that proclaimed her an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...great cares, great burdens, great responsibilities. Harvard is anxious and troubled about many things. Nor do we know how much the Harvard Cooperative Society, Inc., has to do with Harvard University. Nevertheless, there is a juxtaposition, a nearness to the rose that makes one look for the higher and finer things. And so when one beholds "Catalog," one wanly looks at Brutus Harvard and asks, "No E. no U, just og?" Boston Transcript...