Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grace was a big woman, nearly middleaged, not pretty, a messy dresser. But her husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
...finer strains of Siamese fighting fish are products of artificial selection, bred for stamina as well as fighting prowess. With good fish a fight will last for six hours. Unpedigreed ones are exhausted in 15 minutes...
...finer and finer analyses, man has broken down Matter from molecules, to atoms, to immaterial "particles" of radiation. No more paradoxical seems the new Einstein theory that Space is the stuff of which Matter is made, that Space is "solid." Surest proof for this, one which Dr. Einstein hopes to have accomplished, is to derive the elements of Matter (electrons, protons, photons) from Space...
...with a weakened morale await the attack side by side with hardened veterans bearing their ancient battle honors on the regimental standards. The estimable old lady of Mr. Auburn street again plays a relief role for Molly Stark, cramming the nervous soldiery with essentials and priming them with the finer point sof trench warfare. Last-minute instructions are issued by the tactical division as the coming campaign is planned in the small hours of the morning. All is quiet on the university front...