Word: finer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setting forth his proposal for new and better graduate living arrangements, Dean Landis is in fact if not in name proposing an extension of the House Plan idea. For Mr. Landis stresses that the principal need of graduate housing is not merely finer buildings, but surroundings whose "atmosphere stimulates the exchange of ideas and experiences" among student residents. This Graduate House Plan suggestion is an interesting and logical one, which grows in importance when coupled with an apparently practical plan for raising the necessary money...
...Shaw combines a fierce hatred of war with a conviction that the common man has come to find a more important reason for living than giving his blood for a muddy strip of battlefield. Shaw is pointing almost towards a rebirth, a reincarnation of man on a higher and finer plane...
Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...
...pictures of the seven prettiest co-ed students at U. of S. C., received a courteous regret from Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Wrote the Ambassador: "I am sorry . . . the King is very busy conferring with his Ministers on the war situation and has no time for the lighter, if finer, things of life...
...better. As a critic, Van Doren began his career in 1916 with a study of Thoreau, followed by an acute book on Dryden in 1920. An instructor at Columbia, he collaborated with his brother Carl on a textbook in 1925 (American & British Literature Since 1890). A poet of steadily finer weave and frosty skill, he published his Collected Poems this year. From 1935 to 1938 he studied cinema as The Nation's movie critic. And for the last ten years he has taught at Columbia a course called English 35 and 36, in which all the plays of Shakespeare...