Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the first days of World War II, when King George's mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with...
...Gold Coasters outplayed a hard-fighting Winthrop club, winning 13 to 0, while the high-scoring Elephants kept a clean slate with a 19 to 6 victory over Kirkland...
...first 15 minute half the game was tied one-all. Pembroke had scored the initial tally. Mary Brandt, left wing for the Annex, evened it up in the last two minutes of the half. Except for some dangerous and messy bunching up, the game was clean fought and fast...
...Columbus, Ohio, unbeaten Ohio State was flattened 27-0 by Minnesota, which thus got an all-but-clean track to the Rose Bowl...
Dudley didn't have much trouble with Dunster, but Kirkland may mess up its clean slate this afternoon. The Commuters have a polished T attack sparked by speedy Dave Gilbert, but Dudley was never really tested by an under-manned Funster squad...