Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson Key has resisted a great temptation. It has avoided billing its all-college spring weekend as "a great step towards college solidarity" or "a fine way to create college spirit." The scheduled dance, home crew race, and other amusements, according to the Key, are only intended to "break up the monotony of the spring term...
Over 400,000 voters had registered in October--some 25,000 more than ever before in Boston's history. Furthermore, Tuesday, election day, was fine and most of those registered could get to the polls. In the morning papers, Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the darling of Boston politics, came out in favor of John B. Hynes. By ten p.m. that night, James M. Curley, the aged and colorful ruler of the Boston political world, had been beaten by Hynes, the man who replaced him when he served his jail sentence...
Bill Brooks hasn't had much time to look over the freshman aspirants, but praised the fine work in practice sessions of freestylers Dave Hedberg and Ron Huebsch, medley-swimmer Dick Fouquet, and breaststroker Ken Emerson
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...
...seenes in Raly during the war. Throw in a big gob of partisans some mean-looking German soldiery, sprinkle liberally with social significance, squalling infants, breast women, and peasants and you might have "Paisan" or "Open City." But in this case you have "Outery," and you have a very fine motion picture...