Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power...
...riots for Pogo, Latin, and panties, there will be no upheaval over Widener's mechanized checkout station. Who would lead it? The unemployed old librarians now washing decades of Cambridge dust into azure Tampa Bay? The young men whose requests are received and punched by the fewer but much finer female technicians replacing the old librarians...
Smashed Wedgwood. Most new nations of Southeast Asia have enough trouble already with Chinese minorities and are dead-set against bringing in more refugees from the mainland. Hastening their extinction is the fact that many of the finer amahs are Cantonese women who traditionally belong to kongsis, or sisterhoods, that pledge them to spinsterhood. Amahs from Hainan, on the other hand, are usually married. Their husbands used to be admirable Crichtons of colonial society, and their daughters in time used to follow mother's footsteps across the gleaming floors. Though well-trained amahs nowadays earn...
...Blue Room, Mrs. Kennedy sought finer portraits of the first seven Presidents than the mediocre copies inherited from earlier administrations...