Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detecting forgeries in the old and supposedly valuable pictures. This will eliminate the current doubt and expense, which is so deleterious to collectors and experts today. Another great question, whose ghost our experiments if successful would lay is as to whether or not it is worth while to clean old and retouched pictures...
...last two years she had been President of the City Council, and in that capacity functioned as Acting Mayor in the summer of 1924 when Mayor Edwin J. Brown went to Manhattan for the Democratic convention. While he was away she ordered the chief of police to clean up the city. He refused and she removed him from office and started a clean up of her own. Mayor Brown left Manhattan in haste and returned to Seattle to restore his police chief...
...Senate Mr. Smoot exclaimed: "I used to take a good deal of pride in keeping the Record clean from anything outside just what was said in this body, but I long ago gave that up. However, I do want to say that every page printed in the Record costs about $48, outside of transportation throughout the United States of the mail itself. I think Senators ought to begin to see that, if we are going to fill the Record with page after page, day after day, of extraneous matter, they are simply taking that much money out of the Treasury...
...overseas, a welcome substitute for the "monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...
...Crimson's Seconds also showed a good brand of wrestling when they made a clean sweep of all their matches with the M. I. T. Seconds, and won by a 22 to 0 score. Four of the bouts were won by decision, one by a fall, and one by default...