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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard athletic teams have thus far scored a clean sweep in the games played with Dartmouth this weekend. The University harriers triumphed over their Big Green opponents by the decisive score of 20 to 36; the yearlings conquered Dartmouth 1933 by the even better count of 19 to 38; and the University soccer team defeated the Hanoverians by the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HAS EDGE IN WEEKEND SPORTS | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...could correctly forecast the impending struggle. He, alas, is gone. (Fine fellow, Joe, shame he drank.) I can only attempt to fill the gap by predicting that very few seats will be vacant in the Stadium, that no matter what happens, the game afterwards will be described as "clean, hard football", and that broken fields will have little or no edge on broken bottles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Metropolitan Critics Concede Slight Edge to Still Untried Green--Broken Bottles Will Have Edge on Broken Fields | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...capered, skipped and grimaced according to instructions of McCarthy, who had said to him: "See if you can diddle a walk." With Bush and English on base, Hornsby and Cuyler, razzed as they came up for having struck out twelve times in two games and a half, each made clean hits. After that Pitcher Bush seemed to get more speed on the ball; his curve broke faster and Philadelphia only got one more hit. Cubs 3, Athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Foxx, Miller, Dykes, Boley and Bishop singled. Old left-handed Arthur Nehf, who used to pitch for the Giants, went in for Root. Then Pitcher Blake went in, then Pitcher Malone went in. He hit Miller in the ribs with a crazy pitch while the Athletics in their clean cream-colored uniforms continued to run around the bases. After that inning the Cubs (8) were too shaken to score, the Athletics (10) too tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yankee Ingenuity | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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