Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School Basket Ball Tournament at Chicago, I would have answered both of the above in the positive. But now I am inclined to believe negatively-How on earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
...mechanism of the projected tax shift will be for the Treasury to remit three quarters of the "rates" (taxes) now levied locally upon "productive industry employing manual labor." In the case of "actively producing farmlands" the Treasury will remit the whole of the local taxes, "They will be wiped clean off the slate!" exulted Mr. Churchill. Then he stated soberly that the "wiping" would cost the Treasury ?29,000,000 per year...
...clean white uniforms bearing the crimson image of a linotype machine on the left breast, the CRIMSON baseball team will emerge from its winter quarters at 3 o'clock today, Daylight Saving time, to take its first steps in preparation for the second annual diamond--clash with the Princetonian nine at Princeton on Saturday...
...funds afterwards. Among the politicians themselves there is in addition a belief that Mr. Hoover's personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood, and he does not convey that sense of apostolic authority which surrounds Mr. Hughes...
...Peru, who has gone into the tabloid business by purchasing from William Randolph Hearst the New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser (TIME, March 19), signed his name last week to an advertisement which said: "I am sure you will agree with me that an up-to-date, clean, interesting tabloid is the paper you want. You will find it contains all the news that 95% of the people want to read...