Word: clean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
They trained at Fort Sill. A chaplain-not Father Tiernan-undertook to give them a lecture on clean living. A rugged man, the chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
Physics still has its work cut out for it, however. It will take about 50 years, thinks Gamow, to complete a theory of elementary length. Then the physicists can explain everything physical, from atoms to the universe, in tidy, clean-cut mathematics...
...rear. Both the Fleetline (with the torpedo back) and the Styleline (with the square "bustle back") have Chevvy's 90 h.p. valve-in-head engine. The inevitable question: Is Chevrolet as handsome as the Ford? Some shoppers would think that Ford's front end is more clean-cut. Whether or not Chevrolet's rounded overall design is more graceful than the boxier Ford is a point that will be argued for months...