Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins removed his spectacles and wiped them clean of imperceptible dust. Ecomiums can be embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...
...Marines that the picks, shovels, hatchets and crowbars rained down. With them an emergency landing field was cleared, smoothed. When planes could land and take off, the more seriously wounded Marines, totaling nine, were flown, one at a time to the Nicaraguan Capital of Managua, and there tucked into clean hospital beds...
...elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college show I have ever seen...
...into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared the one wholesome, clean place where a man could go to get away from himself. But now engaged girls will pawn their rings, and go by taxi to save their name: old maids will feel temptations as they pass the exits: and the conductors will become introspective...