Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...messenger rushed in importantly, pushed an official message under II Duce's nose. II Duce glanced over it with a sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press was the fact that II Duce is a dunker. With fine appetite he absorbed two plates of spaghetti and a helping of roast beef with peas. Into his glass of red wine he dipped crust after crust of coarse bread which he sucked appreciatively...
...dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught, and that a single fine sharp horn grew from his forehead. In the Middle Ages it was believed that if a unicorn saw a virgin he would approach gently, lay his head...
That calf is now a fine 2-year-old Ayrshire bull. From the top of its head projects a single prodigious horn (see cut). Dr. Dove describes the character of his artificial unicorn thus: "True in spirit as in horn to his prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness...
...line in agony with a pulled muscle. But the Texans deserved their victory. Time was 0:41.1, a half-second better than the meet record. Next day the same foursome, together since freshman year, smashed the 880-yd. record with the time of 1:26.6. "It's mighty fine country up this way," drawled Sprinter Wallender. Outstanding individual performance of the meet went to Ohio State's Charles Beetham, anchor-man in the two-mile relay, who ran his half-mile in an amazing 1:52.5, came from third place 20 yards behind the pacesetter to finish...
This Virginian aristocrat, whose natural ability and profession of the law drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose...