Word: clean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurses' way of speaking in front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman who jumps on it and dances a defiant Charleston...
...graphically demonstrated by this issue. At Amherst and Williams, two of the country's most highly fraternized colleges, faculty and alumni committees allowed the houses to reopen on a probationary basis only; officials at the former school ruled that chapters whose national constitutions contained discriminatory clauses would have to clean up the constitutions or sever their connections...
Only captain Jim McKittrick and Hugh Foster salvaged the day for the Crimson. McKittrick whitewashed his opponent 3 to 0, while Foster brushed past his man 3 to 1. Three clean sweeps in the other trio of individual matches gave the Club's players, many of whom have been state champions, top honors for the afternoon...
Nowadays, a man just can't be sure. With all these people blasting away with dynamite and gunpowder, it's getting so he can't tell a real honest-to-goodness explosion from a fella trying to have a little good clean fun. Why, if all the blasts heard around here were the real McCoy, Cambridge would be as bare today as a Kansas wheatfield after a record harvest...
...than any other sport, and last year it was proven under competition that Hal Ulen's swimmers can win more meets than most teams in the nation. Last year, his moist horde overpowered all of their nine opponents except Yale. This year they're out to make it a clean sweep...