Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week an interior decorator went to the Fifth Avenue triplex apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired Danish-American zinc man. He was commissioned to remove some 16th Century Flemish tapestries which Mr. Lihme was lending for exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been...
...worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such as "flexible", "graceful", "minimum of effort", "smooth running" etc., which conveys an impression of something higher and finer than the mere drudgery of pulling an oar through the water...
...within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances or my fancy dictate. Tell that to the Prosecutor General. . . . With me" this is a question of Honor. I owe it to the memory of my son. No one has any finer cause than mine...
...memorial to their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr., his parents could not have chosen a finer tribute than another Freshman Hall. It is at once a splendid commemoration to one who never lived beyond the years of youth himself and it is also a substantiation of a major note in the university's aims--that of making the first year as pleasant and as satisfactory as possible. McKinlock Hall joins the distinguished company of Smith, of Gore and of Standish and like them it stands as a vital and powerful influence on the men of Harvard...
...political point. Nor can this be laid to the fact that he is a stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti case in search of the truth...