Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerstenberg), a free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments of theater, might possibly-in this most uncritical of seasons-squeak through...
...better reciprocating engine-which, however, cannot go into production until 1944. Possibly the present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though infinitely better) merchant marine than her present...
Tayton Co., whose sales have soared since Fidler signed up, agreed to follow him to Mutual, starting afresh for 13 weeks. Huffed CBS: "If he has found a network which will wholly accept his views . . . we are pleased...
...short order they found him guilty on 17 counts of mail fraud, spent the rest of the 25-hour recess in clearing his lawyers, Charles M. Travis and Garrett A. Brownback, of being accomplices. As Foreman Houston A. Hiers returned the verdict, Hopson's moans & groans broke out afresh. He faced at least five long years in federal prison, plus a $1,000 fine...
...last fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...