Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...
Cheered by the return of allying Torbie Macdonald to his regular tailback post yesterday afternoon, the Crimson Varsity football squad went through a spirited workout, which was devoted to learning defensive assignments against Penn plays and acquiring a bit more offensive polish. This was topped off by a brisk 40 minute scrimmage between the C team and the Jayvees...
This afternoon Harlow will run his Red squad through a brisk scrimmage. Contact work and experience go hand in hand, and the Crimson displayed Saturday a need for considerable seasoning before opening with Ivy League teams...
...ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does not fit our own pattern of ethics, it still remains a solid contribution to the advancement of culture because of its thought-provoking nature. Art regains health and circulation after just such brisk intellectual rubdowns...
First boom signs: Penguin Books (6d.) were swamped with orders. Book clubs and rental libraries reported big new enrollments. Large stocks moved to libraries for evacuated children, army camps (favorites: Gone With the Wind, Northwest Passage, Anthony Adverse, the Bible). A brisk trade was reported in German dictionaries, purchased by British soldiers who, they said, want to be able to read the signs to Berlin...