Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British catalogues are quite complete, with listings of most minor works and rare, hard-to-sell large sets such as Purcell's great opera. "Dido and Aeneas." With less spent on advertising and technicolor album covers, the British customer gets more for his money in finer records. We can only hope that the American industry will once again set its sights on the target of better records and will turn towards quality when it has sated its appetite for huge profits. It would be refreshing again to have music for music's sake the rule in the platter business...
Whether or not track coach Jaakko Mikkola is familiar with the week-long woes that accompany registration is one of the finer questions confronting local sports enthusiasts. He has gone on record with the cheery statement that Freshmen should comprise the strength of this year's cross country squad...
...week in an effort to assemble his most effective unit for the opener against Harvard." This notably tough team, is made tougher by the presence of a Mr. Trojanowski, who played fullback for Connecticut Huskies last year, and was at season's end, conceded to be one of the finer backs in New England. So what do they say about him? "Wall Trojanokski is set for a starting role...
Hard tack and chocolate fudge, manly bellows and girlish squeals are the ingredients of Salem Frigate, which scuds from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
...results of the poll are insignificant," said Finer, "because the question says nothing about the proportion of representation nor does it define what 'problems between nations...