Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson oarsmen today swing into their first competitive action of the year with prospects for a clean sweep as the Varsity, Freshmen, and Jayvees meeting M. I. T., Rutgers, and B. U. on the Charles. Bert Haines' 150's race a similar crew from the down river Institute...
...suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...
...China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
Children's hour stories "must reflect respect for law and order, adult authority, good morals and clean living." Cowardice, malice, deceit, selfishness and disrespect for law must, be avoided, and so must torture, horror (present or impending), superstition, profanity, kidnapping, morbid suspense, hysteria, too much gunplay, death rattles...
Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here...