Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade ago, as a fresh-from-college reporter on the Greenville Piedmont, Ashmore got a big hand in the Carolinas by touring "the Deep North" to do a series on Tobacco Roads above the Mason-Dixon line. He took charge of the News's editorial page after serving as an infantry lieutenant colonel in Europe. His campaigns (for two-party politics, racial and religious tolerance, votes for Negroes, higher pay for teachers) have established him as neither a Yankee-lover nor a deep-dyed Southerner...
...Such fresh little jingles, which Mathews and other U.S. motorists have found a bright spot in the monotony of driving, have been an even brighter spot to the Burma-Vita Co., makers of Burma-Shave. Thanks to this form of advertising, the company has doubled and redoubled sales of its brushless cream to a current gross of some $3,000,000 a year...
...knits them into a compact group, and they usually stay in that more or less aloof state in the course of professional Astronomy careers. Probably not more than 200 professionally trained astronomers are active in this country at the present time. For the A.B. Astronomer fresh from college, there are few alternatives. Although one became a ballet dancer a few years back, most of them go to work in allied subjects in secondary schools and then work up to Astronomy positions in colleges and universities. Some qualify with only an A.B. for research assistant jobs in industrial laboratories, but this...
WASHINGTON, April 14--A Congressional demand for criminal prosecution of Henry A. Wallace mingled today with fresh denunciation of his speech-making abroad but President Truman maintained silence...
...Fresh in every mind was the cheering news of the Democratic comeback in Chicago (see Political Notes); the thought gave added zest to the diners as they pitched in to their $100-a-plate dinner. Over coffee and cigars, Gael Sullivan, the Democrats' national executive director, served up the main political fare. Said he: "In front of us today we have a leader-tested and triumphant. He is ... confident because of the people's confidence . . . eager to see and do the right because his, hopes have an abiding kinship with the people's hopes...