Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Rose might have used the same excuse for dishing out this chestnut as if it were fresh-roasted. If he had been reading rival Columnist Leonard Lyons last February he would have known better. In one week, six people had offered twists of the same yarn to Lennie-eleven years after he had first "naively printed" the tale. And only a week before Billy printed it, Lyons had again tagged it a legend...
...imperative that some fresh and sober thought be given to the meaning of the separation of church and state. . . . To a very considerable extent, the Protestant mood has come to reflect the modern secularist attitude, which tends progressively to isolate religion from the more significant areas of the common life. Thus, appeal to the separation of church and state readily becomes an argument for silencing the voice of religion in the political sphere...
Yale's hopes were not entirely quashed even at the end, when Smith tried a series of long heaves that failed to connect. Fresh from the cheers of the crowd, the triumphant Jayvees threw the happy chief into the shower...
...College: famed its teachers, famed its books, its buildings, and its attitudes. But a name is legend, nothing more; the student is the meaning, the living organism that passes on the ideas and the morality current in Cambridge. The worth of the College is the worth of its graduates, fresh-escaped from their four-year imprisonment in the mold. Who they were when they first saw the Square, how they got here, what exactly is the unformed Freshman medium--that is the subject of College Scene Number II. After that comes the deluge of influences: the sticks and stones...
...This fresh angle raised a flurry. The Arabs snorted: "Entirely unacceptable." A British Colonial Office spokesman blurted: "It is obvious that this proposal is diametrically opposed to the British proposal at U.N. of Arthur Creech Jones." Colonial Secretary Creech Jones himself hustled off to London for a powwow. In the flurry, nearly everybody overlooked the lesson: U.N. could still find no cops...