Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunster Committee is tackling part of the House problem. The success of its venture so far suggests that greener fields lie ahead. If a dozen students will gladly give an hour or so a week to learn the finer points of bridge from a more proficient neighbor, then it is quite likely that other groups would gather for a competently directed discussion of existentialism or modern art. Resident professors and tutors could again mix with students on the informal House level. A fully developed program would do much to bring the long-dormant House plan to life again...
...Fred Astaire took a look at sister-in-law Adele's new mink coat and commiserated: "Too bad it isn't female." A little research on mink sex convinced Adele (Mrs. Kingman Douglass) that the skins of female minks really are more delicate and finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat...
Ever since rugby coach ex-officio Syd Cabot left for the West Coast soon after the very successful 1944 wartime schedule was completed, Crimson rugby players have been without a mentor. Last spring a delayed search for a man to instruct ruggers in the finer points of scrummaging found no one capable for the task, and that is the problem any '48 Varsity team must face. And unlike filling a gridiron teaching post, it is difficult even to find a man cognizant of rugby rules...
Jealous of how tough their own comp was, editors often try to sabotage the candidates by making it easier for them. The candidates often fight back in increased effort and hard work, making for occasional jovial tension. But tension draws the wire finer, according to an old CRIMSON proverb on the Great Beer Mug, and makes for finer editors...
...effort to bring the "finer things in life" to such provinces as Chickasha, Okla., and Herkimer, N.Y., moviemakers have turned in recent years to the extravaganza bulging with classical music and them what plays it. One now touring the outlying districts and only just returned to Boston "at popular prices" is "Carnegie Hall." It has everything! Really...