Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtain divorces since newspaper publicity was prohibited (TIME, Dec. 20) has been so great that in one day 17 cases of this nature have been presented before me. . . . Some new and ingenious system such as the Postage Stamp Divorce simply must be devised to help us keep the dockets clear...
...correspondents in China were virtually unanimous last week in cabling their opinion that the British Government and officials of the U. S. Legation at Peking are in harmony behind a policy of armed intervention in China; whereas U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg again made clear at Washington last week, that the Coolidge administration is determined to avoid intervention in China. At Shanghai, British resentment prompted an article entitled "Washington Deserts Her Allies," in the North China Daily News, chief British news organ in China. Most injudiciously, the lurid caption of this article was displayed in the streets...
...Taxes levied against these billions of property totaled $2,508,924,366. This was $403,066,594 less than the 247 cities needed to pay their debts. Only 44 cities collected enough taxes to clear their year's obligations...
From out of the Middle West comes what is without doubt the soundest indictment of the present condition of college athletics yet to reach the public. A brief biography of the author makes clear that he possesses the outward qualifications at least to discuss the question intelligently...
When recent graduates of American colleges begin to apply the cold, clear light of reason to educational problems, deserting fictional pabulum for genuine analysis, the future assumes a brighter aspect. A few are heading towards this end, a stalwart valiant few. In the May Forum Edward C. Aswell offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects...