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Word: finer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could give definite answers to these questions. "This discovery," said Sir Arthur Keith sadly, "has destroyed the finer points we anthropologists depend on for drawing the line between anthropoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the Business District | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...eventually, William McChesney Martin Jr. is likely to turn again to playwriting, and if he does he will have no finer subject than Wall Street's most astonishing year. This week marks the completion of that year, the most crucial in the Stock Exchange's 146 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Mr. Chocolate | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Among her U. S. admirers, the most ardent was a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy named Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Mixture | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...absence of tomorrow's paper, it may be said at this time that the University is breaking precedent in showing a foreign language picture in its Thursday-through-Sunday run. And a finer picture could scarcely have been chosen than the French "Mayerling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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