Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though it is too soon to show modern designs that would have all the fine qualities of the flowing period of an artistic development, this is the most important phase in the growth of an architectural period as the seed from which the ultimate flower is to spring is being sown...
Much on the lines of the scholastic aptitude test most students take before entering college in their Freshman year, the quiz covers in addition non-technical subjects such as literature and fine arts, physics and chemistry, biological sciences, social studies, verbal aptitude and mathematics...
...biology man is found strong in biological sciences, physics and mathematics, very low in literature and little better in fine arts and verbal aptitude. Most concentrators in literature score highest in their own field, but, surprisingly enough, do badly in verbal aptitude...
When Sarah was six and lived in Brooklyn, her father was making a lot of money at the race tracks, wore fine brown suits, owned a good house. When Sarah was seven, her life was a nightmare of cheap boarding houses, lost toys, bewildering moves from hotels whose bills could not be met. By the time she was 14, her mother was working and her father sat at home struggling with vague inventions which never turned out right...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...