Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advancement of learning. He does not expect to find many men who excel in both qualities, but he is determined that when both qualities are latent in an instructor, one will not be sacrificed to the other. Such a plan is admirable. It is hard to conceive of a finer faculty than one whose members are encouraged to make their two missions supplement each other...
...satisfied with this gossamer explanation, I asked to be shown in black and white just how TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...
During the competition the candidates will receive complete instruction in the use of the camera, the developing of films, the printing and enlarging of pictures, and the finer points of the photographic art. A certain amount of routine is involved in the handling of cuts and work in the dark room, which, however, is under the helpful supervision of an editor. Those whose experience is limited, need not feel discouraged, for the use of the CRIMSON's Graflex cameras as well as instruction and help are afforded the dub on equal terms with the expert.Inside Revelation of Eager Candidate Submitting...
...closer to the soil than Joyce ever was. The stripped and ungainly realism frequent in contemporary novels is not forced on a man with such a background. "A Nest of Simple Folk" is a profound and beautifully written book in itself, and leaves one with the expectation of even finer things to be written by its author...
...better were it for you to continue the finer service of feeding to the public that clearly, cleanly assimilated store of fact from which the sinews of opinion are freely fashioned in free minds. ... I have seen but one copy of the Letters Supplement and that one, it seemed to me, inferentially "flayed'' the President for forbidding you to simulate his voice in ''The March of TIME...