Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest to you that you prepare yourself for a newer and finer stewardship-the industrial rebirth of the nation. You ask when? I don't know. But the task is mighty and the penalty for failure severe, so let us try to be patient...
...FINER COOKING-X. M. Boulestin -Oxford University Press ($5). Discourse by a learned London chef on the "Ninth Art," filled with literary and historical allusions and 308 recipes of everything from soups to sundries. Two volumes: one with decorations by J. E. Laboureur, for the lady of the house; the other, of recipes only, for the cook...
...liberal weekly press are the 23-year-old New Republic and the 72-year-old Nation. Each sells for 15?, each is published in Manhattan. Outsiders are likely to credit the Nation with having a little more wallop than the New Republic, the New Republic with having a little finer literary quality than the Nation. Politically they are not far apart. According to Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, the Nation "has followed a left-liberal policy all the way through, and it has shifted somewhat further to the left as times have changed." The New Republic, says Editor Bruce Bliven...
...different Muncie people voluntarily have just contributed some $31,000, an oversubscription of around $3,500, to erect a memorial entitled "Beneficience" in honor of the Balls. This is an expression of love and respect that we have for the Ball family, than which there is no finer in the nation. They are just plain folks, unostentatious, friendly, democratic to the core, representative of the best in American life. In an unusual degree they consider their wealth as a public trust...
...York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave...