Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominating and electing the permanent class committee. A few clear facts have been sifted through the network of accusations and rebuttals: that nominations have, in several respects, been made without proper consideration of the qualifications necessary for class committee members; that an invalidation of the entire slate, and a fresh approach without prejudice to any individuals on the current list, would climinate all unrest, but would be impractical; and that a revision in the present plan for tabulating ballots would help to establish a competent permanent committee for the Class...
Harvard men and their women wound up the first ice-bound weekend of the year yesterday in a flurry of skids, windburn, and fresh snowflakes...
...Heidelberg Man was fresh out of two teeth. The famed primordial jawbone, hidden underground during the war, was now back at Heidelberg University, but with a couple of ugly gaps. The university wondered just who the dentist had been. "The missing teeth," declared a paleontologist, "did not drop out. . . . The Heidelberg Man had a wonderful set of molars ... all in perfect condition...
Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
...year) on pleasure travel in the U.S. Restrictions on imports from the U.S. were harder to take. Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott said they would be "temporary." But for the time being (best estimate: three to five years) Canadians would do without U.S. cars, radios, refrigerators, jewelry, candy, fresh fruits and vegetables. Even less welcome was the new 25% excise tax on goods manufactured in Canada out of U.S. parts...