Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...siren screeched in the U. S. Treasury Building in Washington. Timid clerks rushed into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...
When the Gridiron sputtered, there came first a Latin-American revolution. A careful count revealed no casualties, the sole result being the inauguration of two men named Brown as the new Gridiron president. Ultimately it became clear that only one Brown, by name Ashmun Norris of the Providence Journal, was president. The other, Harry Jay Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune, was vice president...
...iron strips and driven about in such a way as to hasten the opening of the channel. The ice is still eight or ten inches thick but so weakened that the armored launch encountered no particular difficulty in its work. Although there are still isolated blocks, the channel is clear...
This is undoubtedly true in matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student...
...taking this action we wish it to be clear that we are expressing neither objection nor approval regarding the substance of the act of the Board of Trustees forbidding student ownership and operation of automobiles, but that we are expressing objection to the principle involved in its passage. The Senior Council