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Word: cleaner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dunderhead | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...year ago the hack-writers who produce "true stories" and "confessions" were told by their employers to "lay off the sex stuff." This applied chiefly to seductions and attempted seductions. A cleaner substitute was wanted, partly because of fear of censorship, but essentially because public taste was changing. Heart throbs, steadfast virtue, outdoor heroes, wholesome homes, human interest stories were selling like hotdogs at a horse race. They became the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diluted Sex | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Secondly, all seemed to agree that he is "cleaner"-in mind as well as body-than was his father. A third fact that seemed established was that school is harder than it used to be-more work, less play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Times Have Changed | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. (The 2.000,000th cleaner, gilded and jeweled, was assembled in December)-$1,806,198. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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