Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back to prep school for another year and finally entered Harvard. That is all I know about the subject, and I am telling it not for any desire to back up Hubbard personally, but because I think he is doing an excellent thing in trying to clean up the game. I shall not tell the name of those concerned in the story unless Princeton demands...
...University racquet wielders now hold two legs on the trophy, and a victory this year will make them outright holders of the cup. Last year the Harvard court men swept aside all opposition in the first two rounds, winning by clean sweeps. They continued their triumphal progress in the semifinals and finals when they defeated both the Bosten and Philadelphia teams by a four to one count...
...Moore, Treasurer of the Athletic Association was silent. No Harvard men gave any support to Hubbard's charges. But the judges and referees who officiated at the games were soon heard from. W. R. Okeson of Lehigh, referee and field judge, testifies that the games "were just good, clean contests between a lot of fine, decent boys coached by gentlemen sportsmen." W. G. Crowell, umpire and referee, described them in almost exactly the same language and said that violations of the rules were few and that penalties were imposed. "The players," said F. W. Murphy, umpire and field judge, "conducted...
...Third President," M. Ferdinand Buisson; won his election last week by the clean cut vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...
...years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture, window sills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some...