Word: clean
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chemical laboratory will be open today to enable Chemistry III. men to clean their apparatus preparatory to examination...
...should be opened. However, we might wait until the few necessary repairs are made - a few hundred dollars' worth. The Advocate asks three questions in answer to the reasons given by the faculty for closing the tower: "Why could not the part to be opened to visitors be kept clean? Why could not smoking be strictly forbidden? Why could not extra insurance rates be met by charges for each person?" We would respectfully re-enforce the questions of the Advocate by the following three: Why was the stairway so constructed that it runs through all the dirty part...
...know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute; and if I did n't jest lay over him, my name ain't Jaunty Tucker. Hoss died on his hands two months after I sold...
...revolver from his belt. I would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet had gone clean through the devilish shape, and through the hole the moonlight was shining. A cold shiver ran through me and the perspiration streamed down my face. The figure dilated mockingly, and the arms waved back and forth threateningly, glistening deathly white. The head bowed solemnly. Good Heavens! this was more than...
...call for clean Shirts...