Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native New Yorker myself, now residing in sunny California, I can readily attack any criticism of N.Y.'s public service departments. I have never seen a city with such a well-regulated rubbish or cleaning service. As for clean air, if New York ever had Los Angeles' smog problem, believe me, it would have been rectified long...
...found it uncomfortable with the President of Harvard. General George found it even more uncomfortable at the Vassall's, for the evicted Marbleheaders proved no end of trouble. Not only did they protest violently, but even after they were finally dislodged the Continental Congress was at great expense to clean the place up. Washington's correspondence at this time indicated that his stay in Cambridge was not a completely happy...
...career soldier, Lonardi naturally leaned heavily on old and trusted friends for his administrative appointments. He made a clean sweep of scores of Peronista governors and mayors; so many senior military men were called on for temporary service in these jobs that Lonardi found himself short of qualified division and regimental commanders. His cabinet, however, was mainly civilian, and Argentines seemed to think it serious and competent...
Finally, in such essays as "Akquire Culture and Keep the Brane Clean," nigel sets forth not only what every young swot should know, but his own philosophy of life...
Nivola's first exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural...