Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
...Finnish delegation to the League got busy drawing up a list of needed supplies. Heading this list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More to keep Finland's slate clean than through any hope of success, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner appealed to Russia's Premier V. M. Molotov by radio (the only medium by which he can address him), offering Russia "even greater concessions...
...doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China's desire to keep a clean record against aggression, it was unlikely that Dr. Koo would be able to cast a vote against Russia...
...suspicions, he got 133 top-rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...
...reorganizers (most of whom were bankers who had financed Fisk) for sacrificing the bondholders to suit their own fiscal interests. The old company was sold for $3,030,000 to a new corporation which wrote it up to $13,000,000, but new Fisk Rubber Corp. was clean in one respect: it had no bonded debt. And it prospered...