Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were few finer catches in the Government's Alien Property net than North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. Between them, the onetime partly German-controlled companies made about 8% of all U.S.-made rayon yarn. But North American and Bemberg also proved to be a spiny, troublesome haul. The Dutch Algemeene Kunstziide Unie, N.V. (AKU) complained that the companies really belonged to it. Later the board of directors, representing the minority stockholders, began to complain (TIME, March 8). They wanted the Office of Alien Property to give up its control of the companies...
...word goes round that the league is loaded this winter and the word is right. House basketball, by all portents and by the opinions of athletic secretaries and players, should be faster, finer, and loss soggy than ever before...
...deserve the backing of the fans. But this year, as in many years past, both teams are slamming each other to gain next to last place in a slightly dubious Big Three championship. The men who left the middle West for Harvard Stadium this week could have seen a finer brand of football by staying home...
Richard Edelman, Marvin Stern, and Malcolm Bloch have been named to the entertainment committee while Myron Finer, Norman Dickter, and Raymond Fitch will handle the decorations. The committee's next dance will be the Yale Dater, with Stan Harris' orchestra playing. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and only a limited number will be available...
...reminiscent of Columbia's Freshman--Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...