Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towns of the north [of England] was able to sell only one subscription in a year." Lamented Connolly bitterly: "The public gets the magazine it deserves. London, of course, is a particularly disheartening center from which to operate . . . that sterile, embittered, traditional literary society which has killed so many finer things than a review of literature...
...most of its traditional rivalries, Harvard was able to build up a lead in games won and lost on the basis of a large number of victories in the early years before other schools caught on to the finer points of the game. But this does not hold true in the Yale series. Both teams, along with Princeton, dominated collegiate football for many years and as a result they traded victories pretty evenly...
...think you can perform any finer service than to help maintain the Christian doctrine that the relationship of husband and wife is a permanent one, not to be lightly broken because of difficulties or quarrels...
However the Crimson's showing over this period is deceptive. As is the case in many of Harvard's traditional rivalries, the Crimson holds the edge now because it piled up a large number of victories way back when--long before the other team got wind of the finer points of football...
...Spellman's polemic vigor has been matched by the high glee of the thousands of big and little men who have reaffirmed, for all the world to know, their support of the First Amendment. "We must have separation of the Church and State," they cry--entirely ignoring the finer points of the dispute...