Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great numbers of medicos, some wearing the conventional air of sympathetic abstraction and, on their chins, the familiar bedside Vandyke, but a surprising number of them clean-shaven, brisk, straightforward men of business, convened, last week, in Chicago, at the annual Congress on Medical Education. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, presided; Dr. Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, stood up to address the brisk medicos. He told about the struggles to get a good medical school started in Canada. Others spoke on such topics as the progress of medical education...
...discovered a grave some 4000 years old. One half of it had caved in but the other part was intact. Clearing away the intact end, we found it to be the opening of a long passageway leading down into the hillside. It was filled with clean, chipped limestone and by this and other indications we knew that the tomb had not been opened from the day it had been sealed some 4000 years ago. The passage was cleared out and we entered the door of the burial chamber, deep under the hill, the first men to come there since...
...Secretary Slemp slipped into the White House Office Building for a day on returning from Florida to clean up his desk and leave it neat for his successor...
...University football team, was perhaps in a better position to know Mr. Camp than any other man at the University. On hearing the news of his death he made the following statement: "The death of Walter Camp comes as a great shock to all lovers of clean sport. His place in football will be hard to fill for he, above all others, has been the guarding influence which has kept the game up to its present high standards of sportsmanship. His methods and principles are ideals which every football man strives to follow...
...meet with the J. Sanford Saltus Club will be the fifth of the season for the University team for whom the record shows a clean slate of four victories. The team took two decisive wins from Bowdoin and Syracuse, just barely won over the Army 7-6, and defeated M. I. T. last week 10 to 3, thereby qualifying for the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament which is to be held in New York on April 2 and 3. The J. Sanford Saltus Club, which is a branch club of the French Y. M. C. A. in New York, is regarded...