Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice, parrot beaks, snake fangs and yellow and blue face powders. On Sundays and pleasant evenings in Lagos, the folk who dress by day in rags emerge, as if by magic, in natty slacks and clean, yellow nylon sport shirts for an evening at the movies. And amid Nigeria's poverty, there are reportedly more African millionaires than in all the rest of the continent...
...University Printing Office is making substantial savings this year by printing many of the mid-year exams by photo-offset rather than letter press, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, said yesterday. All the exams which have "clean copy" when handed to the printer are reproduced photographically, instead of setting them up in type and printing them on the familiar small, manila sheets, he explained...
...music-making has drawn many players from big-city orchestras. "I was just one of scores of musicians in the city," says one performer. "I had to scrounge for additional income. I lived in a crowded, third-rate neighborhood. Here. I'm buying my own home in a clean, airy neighborhood, and I'm considered one of the leading members of the local music world. My teaching job gives me more satisfaction than some big-time musicians believe possible...
...effort to clean up New York boxing, the former racket busting District Attorney from Brooklyn contends that any boxer who is connected with a crooked manager is probably crooked himself...
When the lights came back on again, Dr. Jekyll's assistant had made about the twentieth row and seemed to be clutching a snake. "It's all clean and all in fun," Dr. Jekyll giggled. After hypnotising David who had been standing around a while, Dr. Jekyll announced, "Now comes the horror part of our show...