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Word: cleaning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest part of the local game. Walt Coulson and Cliff Crosby have both showed good power, and Lennie Lunder and John Caulfield have each hit in the clutch in the last two weeks. Lunder broke up the Colby game with a tenth-inning double, while Caulfield dumped a clean single into center Tuesday to drive in two runs in the ninth against Northeastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Meets Powerful Navy Nine Here Today | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...Central Intelligence Agency must be given much more power and independence than it has at the present time. Congressional investigations which will bathe the whole system in the killing light of publicity must be avoided. Instead, the Intelligence services and the State Department must quietly and efficiently combine to clean up and rebuild the faculty intelligence agency, which is essentially their responsibility. Unless the United States can renovate its outdated Intelligence immediately, more and greater strategic blunders are in store for us. The daily headlines in the newspapers demonstrate the fact that as time goes on, these mistakes become more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/27/1948 | See Source »

Long before he won his fame, Wedgwood had been turning out cream-colored pottery by hand, and calling it simply "Useful Ware" (sometimes he had it decorated by a Widow Warburton who lived in Hot Lane). It was just about as practical and clean-lined as anything anyone has accomplished since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Potter to the Queen | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

While the real reason for his expulsion remained a mystery, other newsmen guessed that Magidoff might have been a stalking-horse in the Soviet campaign to clean up "impurity" in the arts. He had many friends among Russian writers and artists. Thus, branding him a spy would, later, make it easy to purge any writers he had known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Letter | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...only bright note on the hitting side was the fact that two men with hitherto slim averages found the northern pitching to their taste. Chip Gannon and Huntington each got two clean hits to boost their standing considerably...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Baseball Team Edges Out Colby, 4-3 | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

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