Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such an organization as the Board of Trade should not have anyone from the outside attempt to clean...
...Board has a place in this country, with its dealing in grain futures. But I think it should be cleaned up-and cleaned up from the inside. It has a lot of good men in it who want to clean it up and I see no reason why outsiders should butt...
...what has happened to the nine since then. In 1920, first baseman Jones of the University clouted a home run which proved the only tally, and ever since that hit, Harvard has been waiting for a victory over the Purple in baseball. In 1922, Carroll almost marred his clean slate when he edged out a win after 15 innings of scintillating baseball, and again two years ago, he took two one-run decisions from Young, the University hurler...
...Crimson netmen have played through one of the most successful seasons in the history of the sport at the University this year. After a clean up against several strong teams from below Mason and Dixon's line during the Spring trip, the team defeated Williams, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton in short order. It ran up against unexpectedly stiff opposition from Yale on May 23 and the match ended at a 4 to 4 dead-lock when a downpour of rain interrupted the final doubles match with the score tied at one set apiece between Whitbeck and Ingraham...
...COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming...