Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter followed the sheriff through several halls and doorways, and was finally ushered into a light, clean room which required two looks to identify it as a prison cell-room. Yes, there were the cells, with their brick walls, small beds, and bare tables; but the celling was high, the room light, and the floors were brightly but tastefully painted...
...Merriam forces were straining every resource last week to beg, borrow or steal the voting strength of a Progressive candidate named Raymond LeRoy Haight of Los Angeles. He polled 85,000 votes on the Republican ticket, has a clean record, is a sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...
...gathered. By this week cost of financing had mounted to $100,000,000. But at last Hetch Hetchy Water Supply System was ready to fulfill its purpose. Piled behind O'Shaughnessy Dam in 7½-mile-long Hetch Hetchy reservoir lie 67,000,000,000 gal. of clean, sweet mountain water. Few miles to the northwest lies supplementary Lake Eleanor reservoir, holding 9,000,000,000 gal. The system will supply San Francisco at once with 60,000,000 gal. per day. In full flow the completed system will supply 400,000,000 gal. per day. The first planners...
...Louis Barthou, honorary citizen of Rumania since last summer (TIME, July 9). Hardly had the crowds streaked off to their homes than the Doumergue Cabinet took up the ugly aftermath of the assassinations. Obvious problem was to find a new Foreign Minister, but even more pressing was a clean-up of the French police. In command of this force and hence morally responsible for what happened at Marseilles was the Minister of the Interior, grey, fleshy-faced Albert Sarraut. Even before Barthou was laid away in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Minister Albert Sarraut stepped quickly...
...utilization of this vacant lot for parking purposes would easily accomplish two definite ends. It would clean up a most ugly spot about the University and would aid a large number of students to solve their parking problem at a comparatively reasonable cost...