Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...description of the wild beauty of a waterfall on the Rio Parana is as much a jewel of writing as his tiny humming bird is a "jewel of nature." Following several colorful and exceedingly virile paragraphs, it was positively shocking in its clear beauty, its excellent choice of words, its exquisite phrases...
...different dope sheets for this Quadrangular meet in the Garden on Saturday are starting to appear, and from the different predictions made it is clear that no one has any real idea of who will turn out to be the winner. All four of the competing colleges certainly have at least a good fighting chance to win; and between two of them most of the prognosticators seem to be about spilt...
...first to admit. The style of Dr. Simmons has improved since he wrote "English Literature and Culture in Russia", another pioneer work, but the improvement has been in tenacity, not in clarity, for it has always been the especial good fortune of Dr. Simmons to possess a crystal-clear style. This book really imparts to the reader a feeling of the excitement with which Pushkin's life was led. It was a life spent in the midst of the "madding crowd's ignoble strife", for Pushkin early became involved by association with revolutionaries, and his personal life--his love affairs...
...that the public would view the plan more favorably if it were assured that the Supreme Court might be increased to 15 only temporarily. That, declared Senator Robinson, was exactly what the President contemplated. With interpolations by Senator Byrnes, he proceeded to dictate a statement making the point entirely clear: "Any increase above nine in the membership of the Court can exist only so long as there are judges eligible for retirement. When judges retire the number is reduced by the number retiring. The purpose is always to keep nine members of the Court who are under the retirement...
...hours in a Douglas) beside him, pretty Hostess Ruth Kimmel aft taking care of the eight passengers. At 8:44, after an uneventful trip, Pilot Thompson radioed the dispatcher at Mills Field, San Francisco, that he was approaching, would land on the East-West runway. It was a clear, calm night and those at the airport soon saw the big plane droning in from the South at about 450 ft. It roared over the brightly-lighted field and out over adjacent San Francisco Bay. Two or three miles out the plane began banking to the right in the logical maneuver...