Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing could be finer...
...goings-on, in the cave, the diggers concluded that it was a kind of restaurant. The pottery proved that its patrons were "Danube Culture People," a crude neolithic type that flourished in Central Europe some 5,000 years ago. But the bones of the 40 young girls. were much finer and more delicate. Dr. Kunkel suspects that they belonged to a different race,whose settlements were raided periodically for edible young women...
...fame in the fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...
...intense intellectualism which excludes the finer points of gracious living has little place in Colgate's easy-going atmosphere. Only the Young Democrat's club, a stripling organization, takes up the engaging business of steadily dissenting from most widely held opinions. These conservative left-wingers pass ringing resolutions, hold sparsely attended forums condemning the Administration, and generally have no effect on the political climate. There is, in fact, little concern with any but local politics, and the Young Republicans hold more dances than debates...
...came North, young Gene had never seen an International. But Helmsman Walet, crewed by two Tulane University students and his father, quickly got the feel of the bigger, more complicated craft. He finished second and third in the first two races, then learned some of the Internationals' finer points the hard way when he came in next to last in the third race. After that, he was the sloops' master...