Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teaches Clear Thought...
...rule of that type of Intellectual to whom originality is more meritorious than wisdom. The average man in this country has no sympathy for a criminal and when serving on a jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet and does not talk so much as the man who has picked up a lot of catch words...
...with all her next of kin dead and her husband's empire shattered, she sat last week with clear eyes incapable at last of further tears, as the hymns and songs that had meant life and glory welled again. The Cossacks, Tsarist officers and emigres wore the uniform of her own onetime Imperial Life Guards. "Matoushka Tsaritza!" burst out the Cossack leader, Boris Grabowski, at last. "Dear Little Mother-Empress! God and Holy Russia bless you! Oh, never shall we forget this...
...were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions. The late Clifford M. Holland won a mighty memorial by devising a system of four stations, operating 84 huge fans, to send currents...
...rather isolated from most of the undergraduate activities, get into closer touch with the rest of the college. It has been found that a great many first year men have avoided entering certain activities merely because they did not know what the competition entailed and these meetings ought to clear any doubts on such matters...