Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleeping cars are clean and well served. . . . The trains do about 25 miles per hour with frequent stops to fuel at wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
...painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors...
...years after buying these brands American Safety Razor spent $4,000,000 more on advertising. Therefore its officials were vexed with International Safety Razor for selling similar products.* They sued and expected to win. But International's lawyers thundered that American did not come into court "with clean hands." In support of this charge, they presented certain of American's advertisements to the court. One advertisement read: "Each is equipped with blades of the keenest edge ?Gem Double Life Blades retail 7 for 50 cents." Another read: "Ever-Ready Radio blades possess the keenest cutting edge known to science...
...three-run lead which the Purple accumulated in the first frame was never lost. With one out, Shanahan singled to right, Savage followed suit, and Shevlin swept the sacks as clean as the proverbial Dutch kitchen with a triple to left centre. When he tried to steal home Cutts hurled the ball to the grandstand...
...Bottle Night" is an annual Yale clean-up demonstration. Dormitory inmates assemble at opened casements to hurl the season's collection of bottles, kickshaws, flotsam and jetsam out on the campus to be carted away the following morning...