Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credible that a large percentage of undergraduates will be affected to the extent of paying out fifteen-dollar lump sums for appearing to be an appreciator of good music. There is no one urging the majority to buy records, to hear music, by telling them what "finer men" they may become if they listen to Beethoven's "Seventh" every evening. Certainly a judicial, unprejudiced individual would say that the interest is prefectly sincere and indicative of pronounced broadening...
...contribution of the Student Council toward the expense of taking the University Band to Michigan is a gesture of hospitality and a surety for finer relationships between Universities of East and West that should bring considerable satisfaction to the body of Harvard undergraduates and graduates. Limited by a heavy program of expenditure the H. A. A. is obviously incapable of suffering the total cost of the undertaking, amounting to approximately $4,000. Through the aid of the Student Council, and the private gifts of certain influential Chicago graduates who have already contributed $500, Western graduates and the University at home...
Seated in the gallery, Widower MacDonald's sturdy helpmate-daughter Ishbel fairly glowed. She had never seen her father in finer fettle. She understood that he was making an international declaration of what is to be the foreign policy of the British Empire now that he has returned to power. He was taking the world into his confidence, laying his Socialist heart bare. With five prime ministers and 53 national delegations present and listening, apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald proudly watched the unfolding of her father's great speech...
Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...calculated to amaze both the pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...