Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been the sloppy conditions underfoot in a generally miserable afternoon, but the Crimson Jayvees, fresh from a triumph over Princeton's Junior Varsity last Saturday, were far from their best in subduing a Boston eleven whose average weight could not have exceeded 160 pounds...
...pails and water buckets, the U. S. Army was determinedly erecting a long, low, narrow group of buildings adjacent to their expanding Fort Devens. This clump was imaginatively tagged "Lovell General Hospital, North"--the "North" to distinguish it conveniently from a neighboring clump, Lovell General Hospital, South." Beyond a fresh coat of paint and a new, if inexplicable, numbering system, the exteriors of the erst-while hospital buildings haven't changed a whit since...
...step into his parlor. Once enmeshed in that strategically appointed web, the spectator is enticed by sheer wit to rest his repressions as the master's charming child-adults parade their riotously adulterous lives. The Blithe Spirit Private Lives formula is only slightly varied, but the cracks are fresh and strictly bon ton. Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains no people, at least not the kind that inhabit the world. Rather does this craftsman...
Basic B.R.T. This season, beefy tackles and flashy halfbacks, fresh out of G.I. uniform, are three-deep on many a campus -often on different campuses from the ones they trod before the war. The traffic in talented footballers is greater by far than in 1929, when the Carnegie Report let go a blast at professionalism in college athletics...
...Presidents have left much of a legacy to literature. The literary remains of Millard Fillmore or Benjamin Harrison, for instance, are scholar-carrion. Abraham Lincoln's writings, in bright contrast, remain fresh and readable...