Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolutionary changes in housing, social security, public health, monopoly control, and education will result from the election of a Labour Government in Britain," declared Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, in an interview with the SERVICE NEWS yesterday...
...country with Miss Robbins dinner at the Cock Horse; opening at the Shubert beastly dull; drinks at the Ritz bar, and so to bed." Summer '49 will duly inscribe: "Up at eight for breakfast; thence to Bio D, from there to Ec A, and finally to Dr. Finer's Gov 1 lecture; lunch in the House; sculling on the Charles most of the afternoon; dinner in the House; studied until 11--marginal cost is quite incomprehensible--than hit the sack...
Rhapsody in Blue (Warner) is a finer memorial to the late, great George Gershwin than Hollywood, after its tinselly tributes to Chopin (A Song to Remember) and Victor Herbert (The Great Victor Herbert), might have been expected to accord. All the more praiseworthy because it deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...
...least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February...
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until...