Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governments are studying in hopes of finding an economic conversion process, is well along in the U.S. as part of a $10 million program. Carrier Corp. is testing a promising new method at a $150,000 pilot plant that will desalt water by freezing it, trapping salt crystals between fresh-water ice crystals...
...descriptions are sharp and unorthodox (of Il Rosso's Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro: "The half-carnival atmosphere of an insane asylum or of a brothel during a police raid"). Together with the book's superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers may say that this is not the Florence they saw, but Author McCarthy...
...Fresh & Incalculable. Author Mattingly, professor of European history at Columbia University, begins his account with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip...
Last month, before President Pusey decided to freeze all Harvard N.D.E.A. loan money, pending a "fresh look" at policy, the University's position had agreed with Flemming...
...Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body." Another factor is that the four substandard harvests before this year's harvest had the effect of resting the vines. This summer they surged forward...