Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mukden, factories lay like raddled skeletons, picked clean of their machinery. Fires raged amid the tenements. The cloud of civil war cast a shadow on the scene; as Chinese Government troops took control of the city, Chinese Communists were poised menacingly on the outskirts...
Better than Raisins. In New Orleans, Tulane Zoologist Edward Hathaway deplored the wasteful practice of discarding flour containing clean, nutritious, wholesome weevils...
...answer was simple: Londoners paid 2? a mile for short trips, 4? for long ones (the 40-mile run from Aylesbury to Upminster costs $1.60). For their money, they got clean stations and trains, smoking cars, daily inspection of tracks and equipment, up & down escalators or lifts at all stations-and smoother, if slower, rides...
...dozen philosophers. Once, on the last day of a course, a student spoke up desperately: "Professor, you have taken many of our beliefs away, but you have given us nothing to substitute." Snapped Cohen: "It is not recorded that Hercules was asked to do any more than clean the Augean stables...
...libretto suggests something by Rex Beach out of Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying...