Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regret of the sudden and untimely death, of Major Fred W. Moore, for more than twenty years Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. Major Moore's services to his Alma Mater have been many and varied. His career has been devoted to the promotion of wholesome rivalry and clean, vigorous sportsmanship. To him athletics existed not only to build the body but to train the mind and spirit. He knew well that truth and fair play can be taught no where better than on the gridiron or a diamond...
...Hardie turned in a good job of hurling for the Freshman baseball team yesterday, and the 1930 nine defeated the Tufts Freshmen by 7 to 1. Hardie held the visitors to four hits, while his teammates garnered nine clean blows off the hurling of Johnson...
...Crimson possibility in either second or third. The javelin throw offers the most uncertain prospect of the afternoon. It has been forecast that this event will end in an S to 1 victory for Harvard, and the same has also been prophesied for Yale. Any score except a clean sweep is perfectly credible in this event since the four leading contestants. Dean and Davidson of Yale, and Moore and Pratt of Harvard, have all made losses of over 18O feet and it is impossible to say which of them will come closest to his best effort in this afternoon...
MacDonald's judgment is that of a practical, and what is more a libera statesman. It can be trusted further than that of professional reformers, who are passing now from liquor to evolution, cosmetics, and clean books, than that of officers of the W. C. T. U. and allied organizations, who may be suspected of looking to Prohibition for their bread and butter. It is really of tremendous significance that a man who would be characterized by most of the die-hards from the rural districts as a bolshevik and so hardly more to be respected than a common theif...
...amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...