Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Turban. Dr. Rebeca Carrion Cachot of the Peruvian National Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and Junius Bird of the American Museum loosened the ropes that tied the top of the bundle. The outer cloths, nearly as strong as new, peeled away easily. Inside were finer cloths, and perched on the top was a turban of red embroidery...
...Trasteverini could remember few finer fiestas. Only the Communists still grumbled dourly that they could have done it better. At Romolo's wineshop, a Communist stronghold, the potbellied Cricket argued sharply with the Poppy, a Red. The Poppy had just remarked snidely: "Someone is getting fat from the festa this year." "Had you your way," said the Cricket, "the walls would have been plastered with newspapers, the Madonna would have been ashamed to show herself in your presence, and the Bersaglieri would have stayed where they were...
Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game...
Barry Turner pitched a much finer game than the box scores show, and with some sort of support from the men around him, the result might have been different. On the basis of yesterday's showing, however, the visitors from Worcester were definitely the superior club...
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...