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Word: cleansing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I went along while he parked his motorcycle wondering what in hell he had on his mind. Any way I was ready for anything. He came back and says 'Got fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

"HAIL FELLOW, THAR SHE BLOWS! Correspondence from our reporter covering the Staten Island Expedition, with special attention to good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

TIME took advantage of a great national need. TIME could have monopolized its field. But it has not. Nor will it, unless it cleans house.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

The Latest from Paris is sold by two commercial travelers, both birdwitted. One is male, the other female. They meet on a train where the man in order to have the woman to himself cleans the observation car of passengers by referring to his recent case of the pox. Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Cleaner. Dirt and trash are removed from the fibres by dropping the fluff on a rapidly revolving disc. Heavy particles are drawn out by the centrifugal force. A belt-and-cylinder device cleans further. The fluff is bagged at the rear of the machine.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraptions | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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