Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual University tournaments in swimming and boxing were held yesterday at the Indoor Athletic Building. Open to all men in the University, both were featured by even competition and clean sportsmanship...
Although the Exeter trackmen broke three records in their meet with the Freshmen on Saturday afternoon, the Freshmen defeated them, 51 2-3 43 1-3 by steady, rather than brilliant scoring The redeeming feature for the Freshmen was the clean sweep made in the 1000-yard run under the leadership of R. S. Playfair...
...missions, currently discussed all over the Protestant world (TIME, Nov. 28), urges that Christianity be rooted in foreign soils. But Missionary Jones talked with Dr. Hu Shih, poet, philosopher, agnostic leader of China's "renaissance," who told him: "China has nothing worth preserving. . . . We must make a clean sweep and adopt Western culture and outlook." Says Dr. Jones: "I gasped...
...last order the Porcupine quartet had not the heart to obey. They simply had to clean up when they went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
...years after its founding no woman dared enter the Athenaeum. Only during the past 75 years have the Proprietors' wives been freely admitted. There are other comparatively recent changes. Gone are the "spit-boxes" (as Boston called them) which used to be filled with clean sand twice a week. Signs no longer warn Proprietors and visitors to keep their feet off the tables...