Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day the Crimson met the strong Quantico Marine outfit and lost by a 6 to 3 score in a seven inning contest. The Southerners bunched their hits well off W. H. MacHale '31 and won a clean-cut victory. Ticknor knocked his second circuit clout of the trip in the seventh inning, with Kidd the Marines star twirler on the mound...
Four victories and no defeats was the record made by the Harvard tennis team during the past week on its southern stay at Norfolk, Virgina. Two of the matches were won by clean sweeps while victory in the other matches came by scores...
Playing against the Norfolk, Country Club on Thursday the Crimson netmen again started out to make it a clean sweep by taking the six singles matches and the first doubles match, but here their streak was stopped when the two remaining doubles combinations lost in three sets after they had taken the opening...
...Northcliffe took him on, pitched him into the kaleidoscopic career of a special correspondent. He covered royal weddings in Spain, religious troubles and riots in France, Stomach Tax in Canada, celebrities and murders and mysteries at home. Out of his heterogeneous experience he retains an exaggerated admiration for "the clean and decent poor" (famed Backbone of England) and for "the brotherhood of working journalists, salt of the earth." For criminals, his specialty, he has neither admiration nor sympathy-"not even a sneaking sympathy. They are a little less interesting than lunatics, a little less romantic than sewermen. Their lives...
...some future date, it is the intention of the University to clean out the Plympton Street region altogether and to erect college buildings there, but this involves taking the land out of reach of the city tax assessors, and other problems that will make such a project impractical for many years...