Word: anew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster who was asked "Who is it brings the flowers adorning earth anew?" promptly piped "Mrs. Shaw...
...Scholarship with a capital S so revered by all classes as in China, but this old land is changing fast and few expect bursts of scholarly observations in high classic style from a Chinese Communist leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready...
...self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory-about 30,000 words...
...money. Disappointed, he resigned after four years. Almost immediately he divorced his wife, daughter of a Boston architect, on grounds of cruelty and technical desertion. He gave her and their two sons and daughter every dollar he owned (about $100,000), and at the age of 41 started life anew...
...such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...