Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...woman is directly responsible for the rearing of her children and the making of them honest men and women.- (b) In the functions of municipal government are involved the most vital interests of the family.- (1) Education in public schools.- (2) Sanitary conditions.- (x) Water supply. (y) Clean streets.- (z) More wholesome tenements.- (3) Parks and play-grounds. (4) The reduction to a minimum of the municipal evils involved in-(x) Saloons,- (y) brothels,- (z) gambling houses.- (c) The direct voice of woman is necessary to the efficient carrying out of the municipal functions.- (1) She has the care...
...career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice...
...beginning of the second half, Princeton made a strong rally and by short rushes and clean, hard play, scored a touchdown. The goal was kicked. Yale then braced up again and scored once more by steady team work. The goal was missed and the final score remained...
...take pride. It was a first rate contest from beginning to end, won fairly and squarely by Pennsylvania, lost pluckily and honorably by Harvard. Certainly, however disappointed we may be that the final score was against us, we can feel that there was a decided victory for good clean sport, a victory in which Harvard shared not less than Pennsylvania and upon which both can look with equal satisfaction...
...before a crowd of 28,000. The game was well played and exciting throughout, and was characterized by old-fashioned, straight football, with few tricks, or mass plays. Though one man, Rosengarten of Princeton, was ruled off for slugging, the playing on the whole was clean, and free from unnecessary roughness...