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...important that you carefully think through what information will be helpful to the person who is writing a letter for you. It is important to refresh the letter writer's memory of the work that you have done for him or her. If some time has passed since you completed your work with him or her, you may want to supply materials such as the research paper you wrote or the special project that you did. You may also want to give a progress report or relevant experience since that time...

Author: By Martha P. Leape, | Title: Letters of Recommendation | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1956: World Crisis, Appalling Events: Hungarian Revolution | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...joca ("jests").... In these joca Sainte Foy overlooked no detail, no matter how small, or seemingly unimportant.... Sainte Foy helped one of [the 11th-century author] Bernard's pupils find a prayer book that he had lost in a forest near Angers. She filled a gourd with wine to refresh several hot and thirty pilgrims...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...interrupting" the speech. Instead, those present were subjected to the harshest, most vicious of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish vituperation, remarks which went far beyond the limits of rational political discourse (I invite Mr. Kurzman especially, and others as well, to listen to a tape of the speech to refresh their memories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Anti-Jewish' | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...season on CBS in After MASH, a series set in a Veterans hospital in the U.S., to be written by Gelbart and produced by Metcalfe. The second is that in the post-op of reruns, the members of the 4077 will continue indefinitely to act bonkers, save lives and refresh viewers' spirits. Radar will lose and find his Teddy bear and, maybe, lose his virginity. Klinger will show up in that cunning little chiffon number he bought in Seoul. Frank will fritter and whine and cluck like a chicken. B.J. will keep trying to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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