Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges, who moved from Le Locle to Geneva, has seen the advent of wristwatches, electric clocks, self-winding watches. Last week he made his own contribution to the new science of watchmaking...
...Reaching Developments Hailed as Benefit to Real Estate...Greater and Finer New York Will Follow Passing of Depression...Smith Declares Recovery Depends Largely on Easier Real Estate Financing ... We Are Just Beginning to Grow ... Opportunities in Realty Held Best in Century ... Bargain Time in Realty Buying, Davies Believes ... Good Bargains in Real Estate Held Plentiful .. Realty Declared Standing Test Best of Any Forms of Wealth ... Realty Entering New City Cycle, Declares Potter ... Edwards Lands N. Y. Real Estate as an Investment ... One Will Not Make Mistake Buying Now ... Good Buying Year is Seen ... Rental Market Panicky Phase Declared Ended ... Predicts...
...there is another side of undergraduate Yale which has not been touched upon until now because it can contribute only the finer shadings to a blatantly general portrait. There are those at Yale who have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very...
...Some men write law and opinions in books which Justice Holmes has fully expressed in sentences. If he had not become a lawyer he would undoubtedly have been a great philosopher, or writer on philosophical subjects. No English or American judge has ever possessed a finer literary style," Professor Chafee said of his contribution to law literature...
...determine most radio careers. Charles F. Gannon of Erwin, Wasey & Co. (agents for Reynolds) "discovered" Alice Joy at a party this autumn, when he was in the midst of concocting the Prince Albert program. Quick to appreciate the husky, vibrant quality which makes some mediocre voices broadcast better than finer, better trained ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over...