Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the use of the four-oar unit is the fact that, while the movements are of course identical with those employed in an eight, the difficulty of each separate element of the stroke is increased to a notable extent. A four is rigged lower and so requires finer manipulation of the oar to free it from the water at the finish. A four is harder to propel than an eight. And most important of all, the problem of balance, with only two oars on a side, is magnified beyond all proportion to that required in an eight...
...essay on the subject of good roads. Naturally, he comes to Washington to have the President present him with the scholarship. The natural consequence is. the bright young lad returns to his home with a civil engineer's degree and devotes his life to making the country a finer and safer place to ride...
Since The Wanderings of Oisin (a narrative poem based on Celtic legends), Yeats has been recognized as among the most distinguished of living poets. His life has been devoted to the Irish renaissance. In large measure he was the Irish renaissance. George Moore admits it. Synge, a finer dramatist, and Lady Gregory, a better technician, were directed by him. To him the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) owes its great days and its survival. His best drama is the Land of Heart's Desire, but his fame rests upon his lyrics. In the U. S., Yeats' complete works have been...
...Memorial Hall and is called the Bursar's Office. Ps only value has been to show the need of better accomodations for the University's treasury department. The Planning board has at last announced that the little brown thing is to give place to something bigger and finer and few will mourn its "taking off". There may appear some sentimentalists to carry off large bits as treasures, but it is more likely that even these few will use their bits to keep their fires burning...
...interrupted by occasional raids of a reinforced chorus, or visits of "old Frosty". Mr. Dunn Senior's office manager. Likewise, Maggie uses her opportunities to wind the obliging Joe around an attractive little finger. In the end, Andy, who appeared at first as a rather spoiled youth, emerges a finer, better specimen of manhood, due naturally to the effect of Mary Jane...