Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn follows darkness and life rises again from the earth. And it was nice for turn-of-the-century housewives to glance up from the grits and bacon simmering on the stove and rest their eyes on the ancient world represented in Reading from Homer-somehow infinitely cooler and finer, and with more marble...
...teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face . . . and in [mind] she was not inferior . . . to any with whom I had been acquainted. . . . I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her direct; but shocking to relate, she answered No. . . . I was mortified . . . in a hundred different ways. . . . Others have been made fools of by the girls...
...delight, it seems, in trying to hold the South up in ridicule. . . . It's rather a pity that the whole country at this sad hour doesn't have more of the sound and conservative fundamentals of Southerners. And, incidentally, I challenge you to find anywhere a finer or more beautiful city than the southern city of Memphis...
Herman T. Finer, visiting lecturer on Government and member of the executive of the British Fabian Society, traced the historical development of that organization, and A. Sprague Coolidge, lecturer on Chemistry and onetime Socialist party candidate for the United States Senate, spoke of "the failure" of parallel movements in this country...
...three faculty sponsors are Alfred S. Coolidge, lecturer on Chemistry, Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, and Caleb A. Smith, instructor in Economics...