Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relations with other nations would be strengthened and clarified through new leadership-leadership not grown too tired and cynical to lead; leadership less enamored by the panoply and show of power; leadership fresh from the people. "For all these reasons and many others, I, with the deepest sincerity, believe that the future welfare of the country is involved in the Republican Party's winning the Presidency in 1944. But to win we must deserve...
...newspaper readers got a fresh point of view last week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class of '40, son of the ex-Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with...
Cassino, linchpin of the Gustav Line, had to fall before the Nettuno attackers could move. Held long enough, it might even enable the Germans, rushing down fresh troops from north Italy and pulling seasoned outfits out of the Gustav Line, to force abandonment of the beachhead...
...made his discovery when cattlemen in North Dakota and Canada complained that some of their stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...
...best thing yet in the camouflage field of fresh vegetation," explains Professor of Botany Elmer D. Merrill, is the result of work carried out by University botanists. Projects on classifying poisonous and edible wild plants in the various theaters of war have also occupied the recent work of the botanists...