Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever the New Deal gives out a fresh batch of statistics to bolster up some of their pet projects, I am reminded of what Mark Twain said about statistics, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics...
...fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland...
...Western Reserve University summer school in Cleveland, Isaac S. Metcalf Jr., writing a thesis on the subject of what minnows eat, discovered that the best way to get minnows for experiments was out of the stomachs of fresh fish, spent the summer fishing...
...seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...
...rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds properly starts. To Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire most of the time, where the peasants killed their colts every spring and lived in one-room huts with pigs, chickens and vast swarms of flies, where no one had ever heard of such products of civilization as underwear, toothbrushes or toilets...