Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...stepped Mayor Edward D. Bass of Chattanooga ("No community was ever served by a finer public utility company"), Chairman L. J. Wilhoite of the Chattanooga Electric Power Board, many another. Trinity's clock struck 12 before the surrender of the last privately owned utility in Tennessee Valley was finished...
...develop your talents to the utmost, Labor honestly and selflessly in your chosen calling. Then in spite of the warfare of ideologies and the outcome of current struggles if your hopes be realized, at some later day it may be written of you, 'He also lived to build a finer civilization.' In the multiplication of such epitaphs the greatness of a nation may truly be read...
...underline its central character, Juárez makes blond-bearded Maximilian a finer straw man than history allows. Benito Pablo Juárez, the Indian-blooded Constitutional President of Mexico, is a democrat because "when a monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change him." In this simple faith Juárez, played with stolid nobility by Paul Muni in a dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when...
...graduated No. 2 in his class. For two years with the high-powered Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood he threaded the jungles of corporate law and finance. He went back to teach at Columbia, was called to Yale where he became Sterling Professor, declined an even finer chair at Chicago, went to SEC in 1934 on Joe Kennedy's invitation...