Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coaches Mikkola and Flanagan will roll out the welcome mat this weekend for all undergraduates, graduate students, section men, secretaries, and 'Cliffedwellers who would like to get a little fresh air and maybe win a prize in the bargain...
...Down Brands. Thanks to his father's brewing interests, Taylor was raised in the sight & sound of industry. Fresh from McGill University, he had a whirl at running his own bus service, then spent seven years with an Ottawa firm learning the investment business. Named a director of his father's Brading Breweries in Ottawa, he picked up other Ontario breweries, formed the Brewing Corp. of Canada. As president and general manager, he whittled 90 brands down to nine, and formed the Brewing Corp. of America to sell his beer...
...Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat of 37 a minute, stayed ahead the whole way, won by ten lengths. At the finish the Oxonians looked done in, the Cantabrigians fresh enough for another race. Time: 23 min. 1 sec.-slowest since...
...adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
...years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...