Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
...impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly. Grizzled, conservative old General Mario Menocal, vice president and smarting under his finessing by Republican Gómez in last year's Batistafied election, finished grinding sugar at his central (mill) in Camagüey and turned up in Havana for "unofficial talks...
...financing is completed all Hearst magazines will be lumped in one package, Hearst Magazines Inc. What may look like simplicity to Mr. Hearst and his chief legal lieutenant, John Francis Neylan, would still look complex to the layman. But in the case of Hearst Magazines one thing is crystal clear: Mr. Hearst needs cash...
...minute penalty or a goal for his opponents, a shrewd hockey player will often chance the penalty, and this was exactly what Forward Herb Lewis of the Detroit Red Wings did last week when it looked as though Neil Colville of the New York Rangers had a clear shot at the Detroit goal. What happened in the next split second caused the liveliest controversy of the 1937 hockey season, probably settled its most important series...
Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with 2,500 tons of scrap. At the east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like...