Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, one day after settlement of the Gould case, Shanghai's Americans had a bigger & better lock-in on their hands. A month-old labor dispute between the U.S. consulate and 800 former U.S. Navy workers (TIME, July 18) broke out afresh. More than 100 Chinese and Sikh workers infiltrated the consulate building and took over the gates. They demanded 6½ months wages plus severance pay. Acting Consul General Walter P. McConaughy and two other officials were locked in. The workers threatened to bring in their entire force of 800, complete with wives & children...
January 7. "I am the wretchedest of the wretched . . . Nobody will miss [Little Nell] like I shall ... Old wounds bleed afresh when I only think of the way of [killing her]; what the actual doing it will be, God knows...
...impressionists made a bold effort to start afresh. They went into the fields, where perspective laws barely apply, and painted in broad daylight, with the sun behind them, to shake the tyranny of shadows from their colors. The best results, done in bright contrasting dabs of pigment, shone with a fluid sparkle new to art, but surprisingly enough they still looked like windows on an illusory world. The revolution had just begun...
...When a great ideal has ceased to illuminate the human understanding and has therefore lost its power, man has no choice but to search afresh for some element in the processes of the real world with which he can identify himself...
...system. Raising the price above the present $10 would decrease subscribers, while the University says it is doing the books a favor by not subsidizing. Though the Crimson and Lampoon are self-perpetuating organizations with policy that must be free of control by its very nature, an Album starts afresh every year, and the word "control" has no meaning for a collection of pictures and nostalgic, informative articles. The '47-'48 Album has a gap of $5000 to fill, now without purveyor advertising, and it is impossible for the Student Council, which has helped many such books...