Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story. Because of the injured players, Harvard has to introduce Al key and Fred Gwynne as ringers and neither had ever played previously. Injuries were held down to a minimum, but the battered Harvard team, no matter how hard they fought, were no match for the heavier Yale squad, fresh from the States. And finally on Sunday there was a repetition at the hands of the B.A.A., with Harvard losing her last two games by the same score...
...passion for neatness (never a stray paper on his desk) and precision (each morning he receives four fresh pencils sharpened to exactly the same length). He dislikes the telephone, which he keeps concealed in a desk drawer, but likes gadgets. His favorite: a system for dimming and increasing the indirect lighting in the governor's office. He never gets excited in public...
...academic illustration. Moreover, the most skillful academicians were unable to compete with photography. In painting, the illusion of reality required the laborious methods of perspective and chiaroscuro. With one click, cameras did the same thing more convincingly. For painting to compete as an art form, and to have something fresh to say painters had to find a new approach to their...
...high-class reporting, that book was a brilliant shifting of floodlights around modern forms of an ancient depravity. In the guise of casual memoirs, Four Studies in Loyalty affirms the beauty of the contrary virtue-a virtue that may be as subtle and incalculable in its effects as a fresh scent on a spring morning...
There would also be discussions about European colonies in the New World (Guatemala, fresh from a tiff with Britain over Belize, wants them declared a menace) and about recognition of de facto governments (one de facto regime, Nicaragua's, will be represented at Bogota). But the chief talk will be about money...