Word: refreshing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refresh herself prior to visiting the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, Queen Marie hastened to the Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...Williams have to refer to their notes all the time when discussing the case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection to our looking at the record...
...might as well have a bit of sport while we were about it. . . . So far we've shot eleven foxes. . . ." British correspondents had not the heart to continue the story of aristocratic discomfiture beyond that point. Their despatches chronicled one final infamy: The Holmwood Huntsmen are wont to refresh themselves with "beer, coarse bread and strong cheese...
...will refresh the brow-beaten American to hear that no less then London music critic has openly and guilelessly praised an American institution. And it is a nice compliment to the University, or more properly to Dr. Davison, that the Harvard Glee Club is the object of this commendation...