Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Last week Muralist Rivera was even louder...
...horse is thus a successful animal partly because it is a fine piece of natural engineering. Man is a grappling bridge upended on its rear towers. This experiment in posture has been fairly successful, although strains and maladjustments resulting from the perpendicular positions are still visible in the human makeup. Among the apes, gibbons run on two legs; gorillas and chimpanzees can take a few upright steps without using their arms as crutches. These apes, "living fossils" which have changed little in 12,000,000 years, have failed to adjust their centres of gravity to the upright posture...
Although there are many fine minds to be found in the contemporary world, Professor Whitehead dwarfs them all. He soars freely in the rarified atmosphere about which most of mankind only dreams. The torch he still holds aloft burns brightly only once in many generations, but it lights the way for succeeding, less creative inheritors, and lives on, as indestructible as philosophy itself...
...rationale of book-typography" has reached a position of respect among eminent practicing printers. In 29 pages Mr. Morison lays down the laws of typography with consummate skill. For the layman the chief delight of his essay is in its effective demolition of the school of so-called "fine printing" Mr. Morison fulminates so beautifully against tricky type-fonts, odd proportions of type and page, misplaced color and the rough edges of handmade paper that it is reasonable to assume any journeyman reader of his remarks will think twice before committing these sins...
John H. Burns '37 is now in the creative throes of preparing "The Christmas Sparrow," alias "Double or Nothing," which is based on Dickens's immortal Christmas play; while Irving G. Fine '37, accompanist for the Glee Club, is composing music somewhat more complicated than the Gilbert and Sullivan variety. The score is said to contain not only tricky rhythmic figures, but also more than a few dissonances in the modern manner...