Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolle's oarsmen, fresh from their June 1 victory over Yale, a race that saw three boat-lengths of Charles River water between the Crimson and Eli shells at the finish, do not as yet know exactly how many of the 11 colleges that have been invited will be able to compete next week, but will undoubtedly encounter as severe a test as they have faced this season...
...Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
...abuilding the largest project yet: 55 acres at Chofu, 15 miles from Tokyo on the Tawa River; 25 acres at Otsu, six miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...Science Editor feels better now-especially over this fresh evidence of the readership his section has-although he is somewhat perplexed by the reader from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who took him to task for once again falling for "that Communist propaganda...
...Institute, Dr. Wilton R. Earle transformed normal cells to cancerous cells by treatment with 20-methyl-cholanthrene, a coal-tar chemical. In an effort to determine what takes place in the mutant cells, he now plans to destroy existing cultures and re-outfit his laboratory for a fresh attack on the baffling problem...