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Word: cleanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colloredo's premature entree into upperclass rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

Chafing at kindly paternalism that replies "the U. S. has your interest at heart" and supplies clean streets, excellent hospitals, clinics and roads, Central and South American patriots sputter ominous objections to the "Anglo-Saxon" regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decency Squabble | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...clean up the fund deficit in part the Legislature provided for a .2% tax per year on the daily deposits of all State banks for ten years. Next November Nebraska voters will pass on a proposition to appropriate $8.000,000 more to dispose of the wreckage left by the guaranty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Nebraska's Guaranty | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...century both in his heat and in the semi-final, and he came within one-fifth of last year's record performance in the 220. He seems like a certain point scorer in both events this evening and it would not be surprising to those who saw his clean-cut, powerful stroke in the trials if he were the outstanding performer of the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruddy, Moles, Set New Records In Trials of Intercollegiate Meet | 3/29/1930 | See Source »

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