finical

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Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because crows eat almost anything they can find, and pick up a good living where other birds, more finical or less clever, would starve, they rarely need to migrate; but they are great rovers.

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje