Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better understands the liking of U. S. citizens for frank and clear-cut statements than His Majesty's popular and astute Ambassador at Washington, Sir Esme Howard. Last week Sir Esme tried to make a statement which would represent the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation and would be at the same time clear-cut and frank. He said...
Such at least is the version of the natives' criticism offered by Correspondent Julian F. Haas. Still concealing his hero's name, Mr. Haas went on to relate how "Big Feet" resolved to clear himself once and for all of the charge of cowardice. He called in leading villagers. To prove his bravery he announced he had just sent the following message to General Sandino: "You horse thief! The reason for my not discharging your wife is not that I fear you, as your countrymen here believe, but the fact that I realize she will soon...
...voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal Walt Whitman...
...Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus. As historian of the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, Professor Hart has been extremely active in research work about the first president; on Saturday he sails Ior Europe to clear up certain other points...
...Crimson horsemen F. A. Clark '29, G. O. Clark '31, E. T. Gerry '31, and T. B. Glynn '29, as substitute, are optimistic as to keeping the season's record clear...