Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mills. Said she: "Mrs. Hearst built the first women's building west of the Mississippi, and the women's building of the University of California is one of the monuments to her memory. That benevolent woman founded scholarships and fellowships and she paved the way for a finer conduct in the college women of this country than was ever possible in former times...
...praise the college woman of today not at all. With what has been provided for her by benevolent women such as this group represents, the college woman must become finer and better." The late Mrs. Hearst was the mother of William Randolph Hearst, whose wife, Mrs. Millicent Hearst, is well-known to some crowned heads of Europe (TIME...
...knowledge of life that Moliere had, according to Professor Wright, helped him to achieve this position, in spite of the fact that Racine, a finer and more impressive poet, was his contemporary. From the time that he went on the stage because, as some will have it, of a very pretty young actress, to his death "in harness" on the stage of the Comedie Francaise, his life was a long struggle against the critics and dogma of his time. "The knowledge". Professor Wright said, "that his career gave him of the weaknesses and foibles...
...Planks" of necessity they are, but they fit directly into a scaffolding. And the scaffolding itself suggests a finer structure of which it has only been possible to sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...
...instinctive rather than conscious mastery. The accepted weapons of her sex she disregards. She is on a man's errand and she deals with men manfully. In the cast of 28 characters she is the only woman. Yet when the need arises none can bear himself with a finer masculinity than...