Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delicate measurements, impossible before, show that humidity causes increased loss of power over a period of time compared with the action when the insulator was kept "clean...
...annual matches with the Coast Guard Academy and Virginia are the tops of the season for Lamar's men. The greeting of the hosts is warm, the competition keen and clean. These two schools have not yet gone in for that practice of getting in ringers, a practice that Lamar feels is rulning Intercollegiate boxing. "Unlike other schools," he says, "Virginia has none of the former amateur boxers which are being grabbed up by most of the other schools. If this were the case everywhere, boxing would rest far more easily in the colleges. The main trouble is this loading...
...Another clean slate survived the evening when John Harkness, Crimson 175 pound entrant, defeated Joe Gifford with a time advantage of six minutes and 45 seconds. The other local boy to make good was Brooks Cavin, who took the 145 pound decision from Fred Caspers of Princeton. Harvey Ross in the 118 pound class, Louis Ach in the 126's, Dick Lindenfelser, Lorrin Woodman, and Gerald Piel in the 165's were the other Crimson representatives...
...official transfer was doubly trying. It occurred on the 42nd anniversary of his entrance into the company as a gas salesman. He still had the gas half of Los Angeles Gas & Electric, which is a subsidiary of Pacific Lighting Corp., but the electric business had been sliced off clean. "It was forced on us," said he bitterly. "There was nothing we could do. It broke my heart...
...harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death. To simplify matters and start with a clean slate, Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father's seven pregnant concubines in sacks and threw them into the sea. This violence was deprecated, and thereafter the heirs-potential were merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded...