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Word: finesse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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permitted to finess the elementary survey course and pare their graduates thoroughly. In these fields there is no reason why an exceptional student should not be permitted to finess the elementary survey course and plunge into more advanced work during his freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Slowly Developed Standard | 10/22/1953 | See Source »

...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Charivari | 5/15/1953 | See Source »

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