Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard is fresh from their victory over Tufts last Saturday, and there is a good possibility of an undefeated season if Amherst can be withheld tomorrow. The Jeffs defeated a powerful McGill eleven last Saturday by the score...
...slept at the nearby Harvard Club (his Brooklyn home was too far away) or in his office across the hall from the studio itself. His blue-eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias to straight factual reporting...
...Author Van Doren lists 27 subjects or episodes treated for the first time) and readers who stay with it come back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting...
Ultra-tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy is the famed veteran hero of the Czechoslovak legions who stormed clear across Russia during the Russian Revolution, sailed from Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly...
...aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that even the clashing of swords suggests a xylophone...