Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watch and Ward is planning to plug up the loophole in Boston's moral strait-jacket by introducing legislation restraining the newspapers. The Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder with their coffee...
Last week, coach Mikkola's beefy proteges scored a clean sweep over Army and Princeton, whipping 239-pound cadet Schultz (who previously had placed third in the West Point relays against some of the eastern seaboard's best weight competition...
...Clemens case, to measure the trifles. It should have been easy. He had gone to the Mt. Clemens plant himself, to check on makeready practices from time clocks to work benches. He wanted everyone to agree that it took twelve seconds to put on an apron, 20 seconds to clean hands, that a man walked 275 ft. a minute, etc. But the company and union lawyers would not agree. Furthermore, they would not agree on which of these functions were trifles or on whether trifles should be added up to working time which had to be paid...
...clean sweep in the lighter positions gave West Point's rugged wrestling team a 19 to 11 win over a fighting, well-conditioned Crimson squad Saturday afternoon before a capacity crowd in the Indoor Athletic Building. Forced to give away five points in the 121-pound class by default, the varsity handed the Cadets an early lead which they only partially made up in the heavier weights...
...Clean Up Building...