Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nerve centre of a diocese is its cathedral, and in the view of many a bishop the finer the cathedral the greater the diocese. Last week, addressing the annual convention of his diocese in Columbus, Bishop Hobson paid his respects to the life of such cathedrals as those in Manhattan and Washington, then continued: "It just happens that the situation in southern Ohio is somewhat different, and perhaps you have a rather strange bishop. . . . If someone came to me today with the offer-'Here's a million-or five million-dollars for your Cathedral,' I would have...
While ending the annual bout between six hundred weary students and Finer's analysis of the German bureaucracy, the April Hour Examination in Government 1 renews the instructors' difficult task of adjusting grades to the Lowell Distribution Curve. Adopted years ago after a scientific study of Freshman marks, the Curve has long served as the God which all Yardling markers must reverence. Although the high calibre of Government One bluebooks now soars above the scientifically established limits, section men are warned not to violate the Gospel according to Lowell. But changing conditions must make too rigid adherence to a static...
Unamuno, "the most important Spaniard since Goya," died of a blood clot on the brain at 72, after making this estimate of Spain's present younger generation: "Our youth has deserted all the constructive and finer things of life for violence and destruction. This struggle in Spain has developed into a class war, full of horrors, without pity or generosity of any kind." Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin...
Promise is punctuated by no dramatic conflict between the principals more exciting than their opposite attitudes toward a mild young man who switches his betrothal from their handsome, animal-spirited daughter to the mother's daughter by a former marriage, a finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair...
...North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening of a finer North Asbury Market under "W. C. Durant-the New Manager-at Your Service...