Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...
...feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Ultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of the fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives, and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society...
...admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in the blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Uultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of our fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society--then there is as much religious feeling in Harvard as there is in the College of Cardinals...
...hopes have been justified. I don't think they have. It is not chargeable to women any more than to men, and I want it understood I favor the franchise to women as their natural right. . . . This is no time for empty compliments. If we cannot now have clean government in Illinois and Chicago with organizations like these great women's clubs to help us, what can we do? . . . Woman with her franchise has proved a disappointment. She is not taking advantage of the opportunities placed in her hands. She has failed to come up to expectations...