Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers of wares. Among 1946's newest sales organizations: the Family Reading Club-"will appeal to the finer instincts . . . the sanctity of the home," and The Executive Book Club-"for every businessman . . . lawyer . . . banker...
Arms & Frequencies Sirs: TIME and FORTUNE, in recent comment about reproduction of recorded music, have said disparagingly that Zenith's Cobra tone arm cuts out frequencies above 5,000 cycles, and have attributed a much finer quality of reproduction to a pickup ranging out to 12,000 cycles...
...Bunthorne-like playboy who absconded with the firm's funds before disappearing in the Army 4-5 years before, and is being grudgingly protected by his magnanimous and eminently successful brother Alan; or 2) he is a wronged and heroic character who really does like poetry, women, and the finer things of life, and has been murdered by his jealous brother Alan...
...during the War, when talk turned to things to look forward to after the gold buttons were handed out, THE GAME was often mentioned. In it lay the hint of finer things to come -- bigger parties, new dates, and maybe, better seats than he had gotten at New Haven. Vag dried his face and tried to think of all the strangers he had promised to meet at the first postwar Game. He winced when he remembered how his mask of indifference had dropped one day and how he had offered to bet anyone even money -- without asking any points -- that...
...Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...