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Word: cleanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next night almost everybody with a clean shirt went to some kind of ball. The Elks Club gave a ball for Elks. The Catholic Club gave a ball for Catholics. The Rex-Ridgeway Club gave a ball for Jews. The Memphis Country Club and the Nineteenth Century Club gave balls for the elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES 6? CITIES: Good Abode | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

While Congress was thus worrying over "almost criminal" receiverships in Chicago, it was doing nothing to help Federal judges in New York keep bankruptcies clean and honest. Last week in conference, awaiting final passage by both Houses, was a new corporate bankruptcy act, seeded with possible scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Almost Criminal | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Last week it was International Mercantile Marine's turn and Philip Albright Small Franklin told his tale. Able executive and man of orderly habits-who keeps his desk clean by filing his papers on the floor of his office-Mr. Franklin has served I. M. M. since 1902 when J. P. Morgan put it together in the hope that it would become a great and profitable shipping trust, is today the No. 1 tycoon of U. S. shipping. When he became president of I. M. M. in 1921 he was also a great tycoon of shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Franklin, Roosevelt & Astor | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...workers are accustomed to wash the shop up a bit, carry out of a few tons of rubbish, and then boast 'Our plant is just as clean as those of Ford.' This, of course, is nonsense. Ford has his smooth cement floors washed with soap three and four times a day. If the paint comes off anywhere a man shows up immediately with a brush and touches up the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soap, Shaves & Ford | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Three Crimson crews showed a clean and rippling wake to a like number of M.I.T. eights during informal races on the River Saturday afternoon, while at the same time the Engineer first 150-pounders out-stroked the Harvard 150's to cross the finish line of the Henley in 7.16 and eight seconds ahead of their rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Crimson Crews Trim M.I.T.; One Eight Defeated | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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