Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday there were no quotations nor Saturday for the Exchange was closed. Clerks who had passed many a sleepless night, slept, then returned to clean up the greatest amount of work which brokerage houses have ever had in so short a time. In the hurly-burly many an error had been made. The clerks had to discover them, rectify them. But in the Stock Exchange Friday and Saturday there was quiet...
...near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines...
Dartmouth comes to Cambridge with a clean slate, having defeated Tilton 8 to 6, Clark School 33 to 0, and Roxbury 7 to 0. Because of its undefeated record, and the absence of any scoring punch in the Harvard backfield, the Green is somewhat of a favorite this afternoon...
Brown-"The report is in part false and in toto so misleading. ..." New York University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...University soccer team kept its slate clean by overcoming Northeastern, winner of a string of 15 straight games, by the score of 5 to 1, yesterday afternoon behind the Business School. The Harvard team clearly outclassed its opponents, and after the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt...