Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases tripped them into falling, whereupon there was uproarious laughter from the Japanese," grimly cabled New York Timesman Hallett Abend. Leading the parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions...
...Nonintervention in Spain (TIME, Nov. 15 et ante). Off the record, nearly every British or Continental statesman will today admit that so-called Non-intervention has been a sorry process of seeing that Spain's civil war is dragged out as long as possible, thus avoiding a clean cut Rightist or Leftist victory. On the record in the House of Commons last week Mr. Chamberlain said he and M. Chautemps have agreed that "the policy of Non-intervention in Spain has been fully justified...
...forgive us! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Help us, we beseech Thee, to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that we may be redeemed from the joul clutches of this national evil, and may order all our ways in the fear and love of God. Amen...
Oldest anatomical research institute in the U. S., the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is housed in a yellow brick, old-fashioned but scrupulously clean building in West Philadelphia. From the rumbling presses in its basement pours a stream of weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...
What, in the name of dear, sweet --- is the New Lecture Hall coming to? For ---'s sake, it was a clean, well-lighted, masculine place in my day. My day was 1928-33. Please, dear Crimson, do something. Most sincerely, George Frazier...