Word: clean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closely following the meeting, the College took steps to clean the Indoor Athletic Building living quarters, and University employees began to move trunks for students transferred to permanent rooms...
Finally, irate housewives took matters into their own hands, sturdily began to clean their sidewalks. The street cleaners' wives promptly hooted them and denounced them as scabs, but the housewives went on sweeping...
...struck me like a thunderclap ... It disarmed all images, all metaphors, and cut through the whole skein of species and phantasms with which we naturally do our thinking ... [It was] far above and beyond the level of any desire or any appetite ... It left a breathless joy and a clean peace and happiness that stayed for hours, and it was something I have never forgotten...
...president's collar was quite a thing to wear. When Palmer took charge of the company in 1929, it was wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from...
...Good Clean Sport. In Belgrade, an athlete named Dangubic, champion of a sport that has become increasingly popular in the Balkans, set a new Yugoslav record: 256½ feet for the grenade throw...