Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book "is designed to serve as an intellectual, clean and honest argument for the side which it represents." Whether it is as conclusive an argument as it seems remains (as all arguments without umpires must remain) a matter of opinion...
...hardest thing in every field of endeavor, and especially in art, is thinking,--clear, hard, clean thinking. Art itself, impossible to define, must be an 'intelligent abstraction from nature'" declared Harry Irvine, noted English character actor, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...other important games Pennsylvania and Pittsburg trampled Cornell and Penn State. Columbia finally scored over Syracuse, New York University's Violets lost their first game this year to Nebraska, and the University of Georgia maintained its clean slate by toppling Alabama...
These two brief quotations serve sufficiently to show the spirit and the style of the work. Not the least reason why this type of history gains such a large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously...
...seat in cheers. When I came to the part where he tells her that he meet leave her forever because after all he has another wife in San Diego I went completely berserk. Mere words cannot describe my enthusiasm. I recommend it heartily to all those desiring a good clean story." It is generally agreed that this makes the little Soughwitz girl...