Word: finer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most accounts, this effort falls short. The finer journalistic works on the Senate have interesting vignettes and biographical portraits, while the political science books have some kind of historical background. Lacking both, Roll Call is an anomaly--a 300-page roller coaster that leaves us exactly where we started...
...girl who will be Queen has already resigned her teaching post and moved from her London flat into royal quarters. At Clarence House, home of the popular "Queen Mum," Elizabeth's mother, and just 200 yds. from Buckingham Palace, she will doubtless be instructed in some of the finer nuances of royal protocol. She has presumably already satisfied the royal doctors that she can bear healthy children and has no family history of hereditary maladies. Asked if she feels prepared for the life ahead of her, the future Queen of England responded in the sweet, storybook style that...
Sophomore Maureen Gildea's gutsy swim in the 1650-yard freestyle last night also ranked as one of the finer moments of the meet. Bringing the entire Smith Swimming Center to its feet, Gildea came from six seconds behind Brown leader Carol Downey to pull even and challenge her for the lead at 1500 yards...
First they scooped a mass of embryonic cells from the womb of a pregnant gray mouse. Using microscopes and a micropipette much finer than a human hair, they sucked out the cells' nuclei and, one by one, transplanted each into a recently fertilized egg extracted from another mouse. That mouse was black and functioned as a kind of genetic control...
...LEAVE THE HALLS of power, and follow through the streets, Join us in a Yuletide round and see the souls we meet. Down the block there's Daniel Steiner--Of prudent lawyers there could be no finer. Across the Yard, Our Dean, Hank Rosovsky, Stares at the emptying coffers of his Faculty While armies of administrators trudge from dorm to dorm Studying conservation--and "calendar reform." For Dean Epps, may the New Year finally end the pain Of late-delivered newspapers, and students who deal cocaine. The Yard is filled with our friends and their faces--But of Arnold...