Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toast of the Town. Hospitable Logansport went into a tailspin over its newfound heroes. First they were sent to a local restaurant with a blanket order for all they could eat. The Deputy Prosecutor, Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...
...rise in enrollment in Spanish courses and in South American history courses are enough of an indication to show how many undergraduates are turning their thoughts and their eyes toward the South, and an occasion like the Ball gives them a chance to combine their newfound interest with pleasure. As if getting the feel of South American life by learning the rhumba were not enough they will find themselves in the august company of practically every senor and senorita in Boston with a trace of Spanish blood in his or her veins...
...Roosevelts are probably not as happy as they might be about their newfound affluence. When tax time rolls around next March, the President, like many another man of great means, will have to dig deep in his bank account to pay his income taxes. Eleanor Roosevelt is already trying to liquidate some of her assets. At her press conference this week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that both her Manhattan town houses (Nos. 47 and 49 East 65th Street) are for sale. She has also given up her hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village...
Last week Il Mondo, disbelieving Generoso Pope's "newfound loyalty," challenged him to print his denunciation of Mussolini in his own papers in Italian. A couple of days later...
...Neanderthalers had no art. The first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...