Word: refreshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Lafayette College's President William Mather Lewis hit upon a plan to keep reunioning alumni sober. He invited them to free classes where they might refresh their minds and their respect for Alma Mater. Last week many another U. S. college had adopted Dr. Lewis' idea...
Modern Colonnade. Restrained as its glamor mostly is, and unified by a compact and accessible plan, the Fair may well weary its visitors less, refresh them more than if it had serious pretensions. From a structural standpoint it is preeminently stage design, fakery. Two big hangar buildings of steel and concrete and an administration building, all permanent fixtures of the new airport, are exceptions to this rule, and greatest exception of all is the Federal Building, separated from the rest by a lagoon and a parade ground. This is the work of San Francisco's genial, hardbitten, unpredictable Timothy...
...that the Tercentenary itself should not be forgotten. In 492 magnificent pages Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation and Director of the Tercentenary, has unrolled the complete panorama of the three hundredth year of Harvard that, when it was over, those who saw might the more easily refresh themselves, and that those who did not see, and that posterity might know about...
...last week was also a week in which, with strike action halted, C.I.O. could consolidate its gains, refresh its leadership, impose discipline. And it was the week in which, though halted elsewhere, C.I.O. at last cracked the Inland sector of "Little Steel's" united front...
Solemnly facing the microphone. Senator Vandenberg began: "I respectfully address myself to Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his personal capacity in this campaign as a candidate for re-election to the Presidency of the United States. May I ask you, Mr. Roosevelt, to refresh my recollection as to precisely what you said regarding the Constitution of the United States when you were inaugurated as President...