Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time we taught our children how to live. . . . A kid comes to school with a fresh, clean mind and an all-consuming desire to find out what life is all about. . . . [But we] accuse him of criminality for daring to be interested in some of the things which life is more about than anything else...
Wally Coulson alone seemed to know the true worth of a bat. He singled hotly between first and second in the third to drive in the first run, and then dropped a clean liner into right over second base his next time up in the sixth. Charley Roche and Armie Essayen, the other locals to collect two safeties apiece, got one each on scratch hits...
Stilwell went in person to serve his ultimatum. "I handed this bundle of paprika to the Peanut and then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing...
...acting biologist could probably have proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
...started when Watkins' maid said, "I think they're illegal," and reported the goldfish to the dorm janitor. The latter didn't care personally as long as he "wouldn't have to clean up after them...