Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourth Game. The glamor faded a little. No band. Less bunting. More the atmosphere of an ordinary ball game. Johnson, refreshed, allowed only three clean hits, passed only two men (one in the first inning when he was cold and one in the ninth when he was tired). Pitcher Yde (Pittsburgh) gave journalists a chance to make puns about Yde and seek. Goose Goslin hit him for a home run, his second in two days; so did Joe Harris. Bucky Harris, called out after a slide to the plate in the seventh inning, screamed like a terrified horse. Umpire Moriarity...
Princeton, so far undefeated, owes its clean slate principally to Slagle, whose kicking and passing turned away Amherst, Washington...
...they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives by ambitious and self-respecting men. They boys, if properly brought up, should become leaders of the Filipino people...
...Holy Terror. John Golden is chiefly famous for clean plays-a fame in no small measure achieved by his own insistent advertising of the fact. Therefore the sharp knuckles of profanity protruding from the hairy fist of his first play this autumn caused comment. The profanity was not, it is true, intense. But remember the crooks in Turn to the Right and the apaches in Seoenfh Heaven. They never said damn or hell...
...should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...