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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Harrison: "To paraphrase a legal term, may I say, 'One who comes into court must come with clean hands.' But in Mellon he has a friend who knows how to sue. My friend from Michigan [Mr. Couzens] will agree to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Golden Apple | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

CRAIG'S WIFE ? The portrait of a lady who dusted her house so clean that her husband left it flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...getting four bingles in seven trips to the plate, Captain Todd passes Zarakov, University third sacker, for the lead in batting among the regulars who have officially opposed moundsmen more than 2 times. The Crimson clean-up man is now hitting for the respectable figure of 327, while Zarakov has dropped to .302, barely above the coveted .300 mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BATTING AVERAGE CLIMBS IN TIGHT CONTESTS WITH PENN AND BATES | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

...element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERTSON, OLYMPIC TRACK COACH, AND T. F. KEANE TELL OF I.C.A.A.A.A. RECORDS | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Wry Blarney | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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