Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate purpose of the amendment is clearly to give potency to the previous regulation, which expressed the same general policy, but in such a fashion that enforcement was impossible. The gist of both readings is that any scholarship man who violates the ruling will be deprived of his honor or stipend, as the case may be. The important changes are these: the peddling of notes has been prohibited for the whole year round, instead of just before examinations; direct mention has been made of the tutoring schools, to make it clear just what sort of traffic is aimed...
Nevertheless, in spite of these objections, it seems clear that swimming is here to stay, and even a measure of this year's enthusiasm on the part of the student body and outside rooters would be sufficient to assure its success as a major sport. Consequently it is to be hoped that the promotion will be given by the authorities in charge...
...ranks above most current cinematic efforts, offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals. It is during the We're Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night of reckless seamanship, both ships are standing clear, close-hauled on the port tack, all sails set and drawing, with the We're Here to the windward and astern of Jenny Cushman. Finding herself being overhauled, the Jenny Cushman craftily comes about, pointing across the We're Here's bows. By sea law, the ship...
...logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they counted for something. They were building a new country and a flag was raised every time "an American was about to be born." It was not until George and Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life, the poor future in it. After a year, having cleared one acre, they decided to try their luck prospecting in Alaska, sailed in their homemade sloop, enjoyed themselves but found...
...tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march, a grudge at troopers and gunners and wagoneers, a surfeit of hills and towns and faces...