Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion thinks uplift is fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records...
Fighting in Africa's deserts is like playing chess with nothing but rooks and pawns. Whole areas of strategic gambit are impossible, and even admissible tactics are confounded and confused by nature. Water is as vital as ammunition; sand finer than talcum makes its way into eyes, carburetors and rifle breeches; heat averaging 120 degrees out of doors becomes incineration inside a tank or behind an airplane engine. Trails ideal for the soft pads of camel feet are too soft for the treads of caterpillars. Mirages, the blistering wind called ghibli, sand blizzards, lack of cover, germs and salt...
...adult generation will . . . summon youth to the building of a finer America and will show that it means business by indicating at least the outlines of a definite, workable plan, the youth of America will respond with unbounded enthusiasm...
...brief history Oklahoma has given the U. S. a smattering of notables. One of them is onetime Secretary of War (under Hoover) Patrick Jay Hurley, who got his start as a mule boy in a coal mine. When Pat Hurley took office in 1929, no finer figure of a man had ever graced a Cabinet meeting. Six feet tall, erect as a wooden Indian, blue-eyed, black-mustached, Secretary Hurley was a sight for sore eyes. From far-off Oklahoma they watched him with love. "Due to Pat," wrote Oklahoma's late Will Rogers, "we're liable...
...have bought all the lubricants Great Britain thinks they need just now. To the U. S. sailed two Cross emissaries-Professor Charles Rist, formerly of the Bank of France, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the British Foreign Office-to try to explain to irritated U. S. businessmen the finer points and necessities of Economic Warfare...