Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to understand how the Vare machine has gotten away with so much graft regularly for many years and remained unexposed. City machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...
Winning all their five scheduled games, the Dark Horses have become the champions of the Touch Football League which closed its season last week. The Pleiades, the Standish Storks, and the Juggernauts, all with clean plates, follow in that order. Postponed games helped these teams to keep their percentage high, as the Pleiades played only two games, the Storks, three, while the Juggernauts only took the field once...
Opening its season with a 4 to 1 victory over the Harvard Club, the University squash team swept into second place in the Class A competition of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association. The Boston Athletic Association, by scoring a clean sweep over the Union Beat Club, stands first in the League at present...
...little accessories to a meal are the things that should make a Common dining hall infinitely superior to the best of cafeterias. These accessories, for example, should be fresh bread, filtered ice water, small individual jelly services, hot rolls, clean table linen, intelligent service, and similar unaccustomed luxuries. These are the things that determine whether or not eating is to be pleasurable or a mere stowing away of fuel...
...reads the record of the government in the prosecution of these most important criminal cases. Justice has been lagging and poor men are led to believe that the law winks kindly upon rich men. The black mark of failure to clean its house of corruption has been indelibly shamped on the government...