Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tadhg Sweeney's miraculous playing at center forward, much has already been said. His was, simply, the outstanding individual performance in a season notable for fine showings...
Soviet astronomy ranks high. Professor Donald Menzel, head of Harvard College Observatory, found Russian astronomers equal to their U.S. colleagues in imagination and ability. Pulkovo Observatory at Leningrad, which has a scientific staff of 400, is particularly fine. The Russians have some excellent men in astrophysics-such as L. S. Shklovsky, who proved that the glow of the Crab Nebula is caused by high-speed electrons passing through the nebula's magnetic field-but top performers are not numerous...
...million annually. Today, Britain has more than 5,000 self-service stores, with a total annual gross of nearly $1 billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores within the next year. Weston, who controls Loblaw's Groceterias (228 stores) in Canada, and National Tea Co. (917 stores) in the U.S., is also training his super sights on Germany...
...plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional stogie (he chewed, too, while Governor of Ohio, and his spittoon aim was fine...
...Hemingway) fled the middle class and the Middle West, they took refuge in "the mature Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much the hoaxer as the hoaxed. She tried to purify words...