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Most of the times posted by the Crimson were solid for this point in the season, and would have been winners against another unshaven team. But the Cadets took to the razors for last week's big showdown with Navy, and all they needed was a touch-up job on Friday night to provide Harvard with its second league loss of the early season...
...future, they discovered, each could see Catamount looming small. They began to work out financing: stock sold to a few believers and a low-interest community-developme nt loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought a lot of bottles and not much draft beer, so Catamount would be bottled without additives, and, most important, there would be no pasteurization, a process that gives beer shelf life...
Ever since its founding in 1888, the Jewish Publication Society of America has wanted to produce a major English-language Bible. Its first effort, in 1917, was essentially one man's touch-up of Protestantism's venerable King James Version, but it sold more than 1 million copies and was, until now, the standard Jewish translation for the English-speaking world. The strength and selling point of the new Bible, rendered directly from Hebrew to English, is that it ignores the wording of all past Christian translations and turns Holy Writ into fresh, understandable contemporary language instead...
...felt uncomfortable when he was being stared at. When fashions changed, he grew his hair long and carefully combed it over the area where the ear was missing. After moving to San Francisco, he became a Brent patient and is already delighted with the result of his surgery, although touch-up work remains to be done. Kaplan has cut his hair short again, and when friends comment on his new ear, he corrects them: "You're looking at a piece...
...walk through the barren halls of Nathan M. Pusey Library, you'll see a little yellow square of paper stuck to the wall of each room. The writing on the yellow square in study-room #36, "Install lights. Touch-up metal trim. Install thermostat. General clean-up," is representative of the minor work involved in completing construction of the library...