Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...
...faced the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed mad clear through. His wrath was due to an attempt by members of his own party (Conservative) to block a measure which, if passed, would effect important savings to the Treasury?savings perhaps sufficient to enable Mr. Churchill to face the voters at the forthcoming election with his budget not too precariously balanced. As his wishes were flouted by his own colleagues the Chancellor, seated grimly on the Treasury Bench, grew first pink and then red with rage, was seen to clench and unclench several times his large...
...plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...
...Slater '24 will speak on "Recent Developments in our Theories of Atomic Structure." Professor Slater is a leader in the field of theoretical physics and has worked in Bohr's laboratory in Copenhagen. He has an unusual gift in making seemingly difficult and abstruse subject appear very easy and clear...
...Bingham has sufficiently demonstrated his confidence in Coach Arnold Horween to make it clear that he will hardly interfere in such an important matter as the choice of the latter's assistants next season. He now emphatically states that, in the last analysis, the selection of line, backfield, and other coaches will be left as usual to the judgement of the head coach...