Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...
...Munich, home of Adolf Hitler and hatching ground of the Roehm Mutiny fortnight ago. Last week Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...
...Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow him to a chilly land where every countryman goes armed, where the chief fuel is yak dung, where dead bodies are exposed for the vultures to pick clean, where a stuck-out tongue is a friendly greeting...
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...vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked of almost nothing else. Under his flowery salesmanship Pittsburgh pocketbooks melted. His dream became 42 stories of clean steel towering above the city's smoke and grime. But Depression canceled many a promise of cash. Since 1931 the Cathedral of Learning has been a stranded skeleton, with students warming themselves by oil burners in the seven floors completed. To finish dressing his dream in stone Chancellor Bowman lately...