Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decisive victory over Yale yesterday, with the two clean sweep records over Dartmouth and Massachusetts Agricultural College, makes the University cross-country team a decided favorite in the Intercollegiate races to be held in Van Cortlandt Park, New York, on November 21. Reid will give Cox of Pennsylvania strong competition for first place, according to Coach Jaakko Mikkola...
Thirteen years ago the Boston Symphony, superb under Karl Muck, visited San Francisco, and stirred civic-minded Westerners to shame for the flickering, undernourished group of players that went by the name of the San Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where they wanted it," says fiercely indomitable Hildreth Carew, the present family leader. Eventually Bayliss, attracted no doubt...
...With its clean sweep in the Holy Cross race last week the University team added to its unbroken series of victories. For three years both the University and Freshman harriers have defeated Yale in the dual meet, and have been under a strict training regimen in preparation for the Yale race next week...