Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the fence stands the administration, convinced of its innocence, despite the fact that virtually no one is willing to issue an absolutely clean bill of health. As the CRIMSON pointed out continually last year, the University's policy has been at best a miserly, penny-pinching, and stupid one throughout. Out of it all, though, came the promise to investigate the whole employment situation thoroughly. Why has there been so much delay? If there is good and adequate reason why hasn't the public been kept informed of developments along these lines; and, if, as Lamont...
...provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater than they could otherwise command. The employees live in company huts, and plans are being made for the construction of model, sanitary towns where the natives for the first time will have hospitals, clean water supply, and sanitary means of sewage disposal. Native customs are being studied with a view to organizing practical trade schools...
...Michigan trapper named St. Martin was shot in the stomach in 1822. The accident proved good fortune to Medicine. For Dr. William Beaumont, young Army surgeon, succeeded in healing the wound, except for a clean hole three inches in diameter. Through that hole Dr. Beaumont was able to study the processes of human digestion for the many years which St. Martin continued to live...
...apart on interpreting the influence of the Red short sales upon wheat prices. Counsel Strawn voiced the opinion of practically all experienced grain traders when he said: "Short selling of 7,500,000 bu. of wheat would not depress its price." Secretary Hyde stoutly repeated that the Board must "clean house." added: "if it doesn't, that, as Kipling would say, is another story...
...During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear eye. He has written many books. Some of them: The A B C of Relativity, Education and the Good Life, Problems of Philosophy, Proposed Roads to Freedom...