Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clouds as weather forecasters: thin cirrus clouds or altocumuli mean fair weather for at least 24 hours ("the higher the clouds, the finer the weather"); thickening cirrus and layers of clouds moving in different directions mean rain; big cumulus clouds in the morning mean thunder showers in the afternoon; persisting fog means rain by afternoon or night...
...best parts of the novel stand out so sharply that all its murder and mystery seem irrelevant. During the Blitz the village had known a finer hour. In the silence before raids the guards had met, waited and talked. The bombs jarred loose ancient reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed...
Hardbitten French professionals, returned to action and glory in Tunisia, had seen no finer staff officer than Major General Walter B. Smith (right), Eisenhower's chief of staff. Their recognition: induction in the famed 2nd Spahis as an honorary first class private. General de Goutel laid the colonial cavalry regiment's scarlet burnous on "Beedle" Smith's shoulders, pinned the outfit's medal badge on his O.D. blouse...
...anxious to appear in these lovely little pillow-cases. Even if the manufacturer threw in two for the price of one, we wouldn't be happy wearing these when every women's shop in Boston, and even in Cambridge, offers at a lower price a smart-fitting shirt of finer material with pretty pearl buttons which DON'T pop off the first time it is worn...
...Pedro Figari, one of whose pictures was on view last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Spatially speaking, Figari was only a single small item in a splendiferous show of the Museum's 224 new acquisitions of modern, Latin American art.* No institution has a finer collection of work from south of the border...