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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing to help us if we can supply something they want." Three American authors, however, supplied something that Editor Hall wanted: three first-rate manuscripts. Said Hall: "It shows the class of readers TIME must have. They were exactly what we wanted: a modern setting with traditional methods, clean and dignified, no sex and no brutality -just sheer deduction in the grand tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...many Lake County white men still muttered darkly. The next time, said one of their leaders, husky, brash Flowers Cockcroft, "We'll clean out every Negro section in south Lake County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Murmur in the Streets | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...described what he saw: "The glasses would serve as my trademark and at the same time suggest the character-quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance." Pathé made four two-reelers of him in spectacles, and they were an instant success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...their brethren to wear. Chicago citizens blinked. In hotels and bars, along the streets, everywhere, middle-aged men in red fezzes all began to present the same face. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine began to assume a familiar native character-"quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their wives, teakwood boats for their children. That evening they dug out their last clean shirts for cocktails with U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Appointment in Bombay | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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