Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with aspects of education not before breathed at that meeting of that provincial assembly. "Naturally", he said, "in considering a question of this sort I turn first of all to the experience of other nations". Then, in that exquisitely finished English style of which he is past master, luminous, clean cut, succinct, he proceeded, in half the time the least voluminous of his predecessors had taken, briefly to sum up analagous educational conditions in England, France, and Germany, to deduce his conclusions, modified by conditions of American life, clearly stated, and to give his answer. "Therefore", he said, "from...
...University gym team suffered its third defeat of the season when it lost to Princeton Saturday by the score of 45 to 9. The Tigers clearly outclassed the Crimson in every event, making a clean sweep in the rings and in the tumbling...
...even approaches absurdity. Since his first novel, Mr. Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald, those conceived by Thomas Hardy are a trio of well-intentioned, kindly old ladies taking afternoon...
...fact that the University sextet suffered a decided set-back in the early part of the season detracts little from the record of eight successive victories over the best of eastern hockey combinations. The Toronto university team, in its sweeping tour of the country, succeeded in keeping a clean slate and successively crushed the strongest college sextets, thereby gaining a fair claim to the world's amateur hockey title. In the face of such an impressive record the Crimson's decisive defeat at the hands of the Canadians testifies not so much to the weakness of the University players...
...much as possible; (2) Abolish all "summer" or pre-college term practice; (3) Abolish all advertising, of any intentional sort, of intercollegiate contests; (4) Eliminate as much as possible intersectional contests--so far as this is compatible with playing, opponents of equal strength. The matter of subsifized athletes, clean playing, professional coaching, and the so-called "tramp" athlete, are not problems which can be successfully dealt with by rule; no college need have any of these if it does not so choose...