Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot" is the only story in the volume that is adequately translated; the English of the others is little better than wretched...
...practical considerations were: 1) that hair-bobbing is now so general that it would be impossible to bar all women with shorn hair; 2) that Catholic women ordinarily wear hats or veils in church. The moral point was finer: women may be admitted to churches if their hair dress is not "harmful to the integrity of Christian morals," that is, if it is not too conspicuous or exaggerated...
...require the successful candidates to show by personal conference with a college officer that their leisure time has resulted in self-education and cultivation of sufficient value and importance to justify its allotment. This plan would, I believe, banish present difficulties from the schools and bring to the college finer material than it now obtains...
...subscriber raised in protest will do very little good. But at least it will be a satisfaction to me to say to you that the covers you put out on your magazine are not only disgusting but nauseating. These pictures are so distasteful that they must offend the finer sensibilities of hundreds of your readers. Is it good advertising, may I ask, to put out a magazine that one is ashamed to have uncovered on one's table? I for one always keep TIME well hidden. This cover I return to you [March 31, Saint Gandhi...
...This association purchased Monticello, Jefferson home, atop a hill outside Charlottesville, Va.. made it a public memorial. Many an architect considers Monticello a finer example of early American architecture than Washington's Mt. Vernon...