Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Welles was bom May 6, 1915, under the sign of Taurus ("The Bull" -April 20 to May 20). Says American Astrology's character delineation of the child of Taurus: Personality: "Fond of . . . the finer-things in life. . . . Eyes large, face broad, body heavy set and inclining to be fleshy." Finances: "He shall personally own that which he works with, or is interested in. . . ." Health: "If there is one thing that Taurus likes better than a big juicy steak it is the money with which to buy another one. . . ." Vocation: "Taurus is the sign governing the throat and vocal...
...larger (see p.47), airports seem to get comparatively smaller, more dangerous. To the shame of U. S. commercial aviation, which leads the world in volume, the airport at the U. S. capital is one of the world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested...
Bobby Green and Russ Allen preceded Dick Harlow in speaking about the importance of Spring practice in order to get blocking and tackling down cold and leave the short Fall session for the finer points of perfecting the plays...
...Barbados Negro servant had run amok at Taliesin, murdered its mistress, her two children, an apprentice and three others, burned the living quarters to the ground. Wright went to Taliesin, buried his mistress alone, and lived there alone for months. Then he began to rebuild Taliesin. Finished in 1915, finer than before, the house was Frank Lloyd Wright's professional triumph over the worst blow of his life...
...finest violin maker in 17th and 18th-Century Cremona (Italy), which was the violin-making capital of the world. He married twice, produced eleven children, waxed wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...