Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word of a saint doubted!?that was something on which the Committee could vote unanimously and instantaneously with a clear conscience. "We recommend Dr. Hu for severe punishment," read their resolution. "We petition the Central Executive Committee to effect his arrest for having publicly insulted the late leader of the party, Sun Yat sen, and destructively criticized his ideals, which must be considered as an act of treason against the government and the people...
...watchful. Peace and order will be maintained. I have not come to power to navigate turbulent waters without clear vision...
...desk clear, he hurried off to Illinois to make a waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
...future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moon beams...
...number of musicians so ousted numbers only 7,000, instead of the 35,000 estimated earlier. Diminishing receipts have impelled several theatres to re-engage their orchestras. The Federation of Musicians is fighting its battle by a propaganda campaign to persuade the public that "canned" orchestras are never as clear, never as rich as orchestras "in person," that for Music's sweet sake no mechanical device should be permitted to intervene between ear and instrument...