Word: refreshingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expenses (shoeblacking, meals, uniforms), for a 400-hr. month. The scale the Brotherhood proposed was $150 for a 240-hour month. The porters also objected to "doubling out" assignments, where porters who have just finished a trip are ordered out on another trip before they have had time to refresh themselves with sleep, baths, visits home...
...anxious observer may tremble for the fate of the reading period with such quantity of competing attractions. But reading lists cannot be pursued twenty-four hours a day, and diversions such as these can refresh the weary minds with good effect. On the whole the only fear to be expressed is that the present calendar be changed, for Boston has not always been, so fortunate...
...attention of His Holiness was not, however, directed entirely toward the actions of his U. S. servants. He spoke to 1,000 new members of the Catholic Youth Associations on the subject of athletic and other amusements, saying in heartfelt manner: "Amusements serve to refresh the spirit which otherwise would be too strained and unable to perform with satisfactory capacity its high noble functions...
Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where...
Sirs: Why not let Subscriber Epstein (TIME, Aug. 15) in addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...