Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dearest little Goody," "Best little Goodykin," "Dearest of all Jeannies," "Lovely Princess," "Lovekin." This is no moonstruck sophomore toasting epistolary marshmallows for his sweetie, but one of the finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...
...statisticians in Washington's Labor Department, the U.S. economy never looked healthier or in finer balance...
...girls would profit much more from other activities. Wrestling, for instance. To the emancipated female of this modern age, an acquaintance with the finer points of wrestling is much more valuable than a knowledge of stair climbing. This is obvious and needs no further explanation...
There is probably no finer house in Malaya than Bukit Serene (peaceful hill), the green-tiled granite palace of the Sultan of Johore. But the Sultan has never occupied Bukit Serene. Four years ago he was persuaded to let it indefinitely to Malcolm MacDonald, the British commissioner general in Southeast Asia, at a nominal rent-just enough to pay the wages of the palace's 37 gardeners...
...olive-skinned Pygmies, said Dr. Ellinger last week, speak the Negrito dialect, but also have a language of their own which neither he nor his guides could understand. The little men have finer features than the Negritos and unfrizzed, wavy hair. The women could pass for miniature Indonesians; their light-brown eyes and graceful limbs give them the appearance of tiny Balinese girls...