Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...required by the College to pay for my board at the House dining room, and yet no effort is made by the College to provide board which I can with a clear conscience ingest. Yet at the same time every facility is provided for the benefit of the followers of certain other sects who observe Lenten restrictions on diet...
...election was supposedly conducted under a constitution that is written in clear, if not deathless, prose. It states in part: "The Electoral Committee shall consist of representatives from each of the four classes and a junior shall be chairman. . . The duties of this committee shall be to. . . attend to the counting of votes...
...matter of speed. Dartmouth skated faster, passed better, and shot harder. The varsity couldn't check back as fast as the Indians lines could attack, and four goals were scored by Dartmouth on clear unhampered shots from close up--on these shots, Crimson goalie Bill Yetman never had a chance...
Aaron is a New England boy, raised in the Berkshires, "not tall nor short, with a brush of chestnut hair, and brown eyes that were serene and markedly friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel...
...sedately married an Austrian dancer and lived as a respectable bourgeois. He did not mix well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...