Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to reorganize the executive branch was crowded off again this winter by more practical concerns. By last week, with the country apparently back in the trough of at least a Recession, the Reorganization Plan had reemerged. Because it gave the President's enemies in Congress a fine excuse- ill-supported by the bill itself-to argue in effect that he was trying to make himself a dictator, it produced the major political fireworks of a highly incandescent week...
...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...
...Albuquerque Tribune, which arranged it, the trip was a fine journalistic stunt. For the children, although they did not know it, it was an extraordinary dose of education. All Juan Tomas' 40 schoolboys and girls (aged 5 to 13), except three who were ill, arrived sober and silent, drinking in everything with their eyes. They were marched first into a park for a picnic lunch and ice cream. Five little girls found they did not like ice cream, gave their cones away. The rest nibbled tentatively, then gulped...
Economics was the field chosen for specialization by a majority of the applicants, numbering 98, closely followed by Government with 96. Next in order are History, with 43; English, 36; Sociology, 13; and Science and Music, with 5 each. The subjects of psychology, fine arts, law, drama, philosophy, philology, and business management were also on the applications...
...possesses a dignity and artistic sincerity not often met with. Mr. O'Sullivan as the young patriot and Miss O'Connor as his fiancee are outstanding. The quality of the photography and sound lag a little behind that of the acting, but these can be learned from Hollywood, while fine acting cannot...