Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corrupt conditions in city courts as revealed by Prosecutor Kresel turned hopefully to Albany and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. During last year's campaign Governor Roosevelt, a candidate for reelection, had touched on the city scandals only most gingerly. So shy was he about taking a strong clean stand against Tammany Hall that he was widely charged with protecting Tammany Hall in return for its votes...
...Lucia, a submarine tender arrived in Devonport (within Sir Hubert's command), 24 hours late, on New Year's day, giving her a very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...
According to the record of the visiting team Harvard should have little difficulty in maintaining a clean slate. The opponents of the Crimson tonight lost to Princeton on Monday night by a 5 to 3 score and were beaten by Brown 3 to 0 last week. It will be the first time that Harvard and Middlebury will ever have played each other at hockey...
Since William Clark (Philadelphia) perfected surgery with the clean-burning electric knife and needle, many surgeons are now using the electric cautery in preference to what Howard Atwood Kelly (Johns Hopkins) in Cancer calls "knife & fork" surgery. The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch...
...first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean it up" under the name of Fawcett's nearly ruined the book. It is doing well again (230,000). Judge Ben Lindsey is a contributor...