Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman's Point Four program had already suggested that a change was at hand. More recently, Washington's warm welcome to Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra pointed up U.S. determination to stand beside its democratic friends. Last week fresh evidence that the U.S. was pulling up its hemispheric socks came with the nomination of an Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. He was balding, 37-year-old Edward G. Miller Jr., Yaleman ('33), Wall Street lawyer and one of Dean Acheson's closest wartime lieutenants at the State Department...
...offers, Archibald Henderson seldom left Chapel Hill for long. Neighbors became accustomed to "The Genius," bounding down to the post office in the morning, or sitting on his porch sipping ginger ale. To them he was a scholarly squire, always ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...
...little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
Pessimists who fear that science is exhausting nature's mysteries can take fresh hope from a newly published book: The Natural History of Mosquitoes, by Dr. Marston Bates (Macmillan; $5). Mosquitoes punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...
Since the soft sandstone in which the legends were originally carved had been crumbling, the new memorial will give fresh emphasis to the inscriptions...