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1 story matching finest
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:finess, fine, finer, fineri, fin, firmest
- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.