Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chatting cheerfully, they looked down on busy traffic and Harvard Square's varied humanity from their mohair perches. Especially amusing to them as they rolled peacefully along was a blond Harvard lad, tennis racquet under his arm and, mercy, clad in shorts...
...time has arrived.'' the President said, "for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. . . . One-third of our population," he echoed his old refrain, ". . . is ill-nourished, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity has returned. . . . All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower. Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor...
...minutes later, pajama-clad Knapp padded into the confusion of his study and mumbled...
...rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
...Dissatisfaction was not entirely limited to tourists. Secretly seething were the 150 members of the khaki-clad Australian military detachment. Most of them decorated World War veterans, they were jammed into overcrowded barracks, fed rations that included no butter (until complaints were published in the London press), and finally given no time for a pilgrimage to the French battlefields, a party most of them had been counting on since leaving Melbourne...