Word: clean
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...neckerchief which served him in his last years, and in his pockets he carried crumbs with which to feed birds, of which he was very fond. If he had anything to carry, were it a pound of sugar from the grocery, white grapes for his favorite chickens, or his clean linen, it was always wrapped in a blue and white checked handkerchief of huge dimensions...
...election of any of their principals. Mr. Lowell ought to be pleased with St. Andrew's when he goes down to give his address. It is a picturesque old-world place, with the gray ivy-clad ruins of the ancient cathedral and castle standing in the midst of the clean, prim town, the old library, with its many literary treasures, and the broad "links," a great stretch of sandy common by the seashore, sacred to the royal and ancient game of golf, while there is an intellectual tone about the society of the place which Mr. Lowell will find thoroughly...
...larger among collegemen than among those voters without a college education. Let us, then, not sneer at the influence college men have in politics, but let all college trained men unite to do their best in endeavoring to make the government of our country what it should be, as clean and strong as possible...
...Amherst seniors have voted that the whole class shall graduate with clean shaven faces...
...following is the standing of the college clubs in the championship contest up to date. Yale has so far a clean score of victories. Princeton stands second, being two games behind Yale. Brown has not as yet won a game...