Word: freshens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program conformed to this concept of youthful intelligence. In trite partisan speeches, Democrats and Progressives were flayed, the Republican tariff extolled, the Depression minimized, the Hoover policies lauded. Prohibition was silenced as an issue. Little or no effort was made by the oldsters who ran the meetings to freshen up political thought for the youngsters...
...loves to be, on the All-American defensive. It had given him an opening for a brilliantly sarcastic reply to France which he released as soon as he landed in England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans to join in and freshen up New York's rather overdone greeting ceremony and for Boston, on the occasion of its tercentenary, to give him a "Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept...
...neurotic, that they can't sit still for a long stretch of studying without some break of a recreational sort; instructors of the old school will claim the present day student has become lazy through easy curricula, and most students will rationalize their action by believing that recreation will freshen their minds and build up a physical reserve for their wrist to be used in the three-hour penmanship and memory contest...