Word: fresherator
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...vegetables before he got to market last week: 35? for a dozen ears of corn, a cent apiece for cucumbers, 25? for an 11-quart basket of tomatoes, 10? for a 5-lb. bag of carrots. Some farmers sprinkle their vegetables with water to make them look fresher, but Gene feels that makes them soggy and pulpy...
...Painted Girls. I.Q.s aside, the beauty queens at Atlantic City last week were a dazzling flock. They were handsomer, shapelier, fresher-and looked less like a group of painted chorus girls-than in many a previous year. Chaperons tagged constantly at their heels, shielding them from men, strong drink and the temptation of chewing...
...readers get what they want, when it is what Hibbs (who considers himself an average reader) wants too. What they get is, among other things, fresher than before, but still not hot news. Until 1939, West Coast copies were shipped by boat through the Panama Canal. This week the issue of July 5 is being made up, but if something new has to be added, some pages can now be changed as late as 18 days from "Post...
Mikkola praised Ted Withington's 49 flat anchor leg in the mile relay, and said that Captain Wes Flint would be much fresher for the IC4A's on May 30 and 31. Trailing the Crimson Saturday were Navy (43 1/2), Army (34 1/2), Penn (29 1/2), Yale (24 1/2), Columbia (19), Princeton (16), Cornell (13 1/2), and Dartmouth...
...that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...