Word: freshly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masons bought a block of tenements in South Philadelphia. With another $40,000 and Negro labor they will transform the block into a low-cost housing project for Negroes, with 1-2-3 room, air-conditioned apartments built around a central fresh air court. This community centre is to have a gymnasium, bowling alley, chapel, a social worker in charge. Work was scheduled to start this week...
...possessed Joe Stalin to hurl such cannon fodder at the well-trained Finns could only be guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down their resistance...
Scarlett. Midway in producing G With the W, Producer Selznick decided he was in no hurry to get going. The novel was too fresh in people's minds, which meant that they would be critical of any picturization no matter how good. Selznick still had nobody to play Scarlett O'Hara, and for more than two years he maintained himself in this useful and exciting dilemma with tenacity and an astute sense of showmanship. Polls were taken, scouts were despatched, a play about the search was written, had been running two months-and still no Scarlett...
Times were tough in Walla Walla, Wash, (pop. 15,976) in the spring of 1932. The tariff wall which Canada hoisted in the early '205 had finally cut off the valley's chief market for fresh fruits, asparagus, tomatoes. Moreover, its wheat was going begging at 50? a bushel...
...bloody, fecund millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its often funny short pieces are as mild compared to the two novels as they are wild, and fresh, relative to the bulk-and much of the best-of U. S. writing...