Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most personal nature loom up with unwonted significance. It is not so thick as to shroud details; these are handled gently but with such calm precision that close scrutiny will reveal no blurred edges. Fastrade von de Warthe walks in the great park, brooding, but her figure is seen clearly through the trees. Dietz von Egloff, with unrest in his soul, rides his black stallion over the estates when the countryside is abed, but the effect is not supernatural. The beast's hoofs ring sharply, the rider's voice is strong and clear...
...James Ramsay Macdonald, onetime ( Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier, Leader of the Labor party: "We admit that the British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
...become majestic in proportion, infelicitous in performance. She embarrassed. Her play was a feebly repetitious comedy in which an elderly man monopolizes his son's woman while his elderly wife reciprocates with her daughter's man. But, even making allowances for the play, it is clear that Mrs. Pat belongs to the dear dead days...
...first-string Crimson defense was impregnable. The speedy Noble, who played the entire game and was the chief Yale threat, could not get around or between Ellison and Clark. Several times he almost got a clear shot at the net, but always at the last moment the drive was spoiled. Vaughan also played a fine game for Yale, and his neat passes to Frey took the puck past the outer defense three or four times. Morrill, however, blocked the work of this combination except once in the last period, when Vaughan came in fast and knocked in the rebound...
...shall be grateful if you will allow space in the columns of The Crimson for this attempt to clear up what I conceive to be a slight misunderstanding of our purposes. Yours sincerely, A. Ambrose Reeves, General Theological Seminary, New York City