Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more practical side of the question it is clear that $50,000,000 worth of tax-exempt property presents an acute financial problem to Cambridge. Taxes are pushed up not only for the business and industrial interests but for all the residents of the city, who include the great majority of the Harvard teaching body. Toward alleviating this burden the University has done everything possible in past years to cooperate with the municipal authorities. In 1902 when the University had occasion to widen De Wolfe Street, President Eliot remarked that from then on Harvard had no intentions of attempting...
Since the only loophole in this clear cut proposition seemed to be the "modest stipends," correspondents asked about them...
...entirely clear, last week, who would be the Rockefeller candidate for Chairman of the Board.† Nor was it clear why Mr. Rockefeller Jr. had gone to Egypt on the eve of his biggest fight...
...chief "gripe," to use a genuine Illinois slang term, which the writer seems to find with the campus is that the "spirit of revolt" is entirely absent. Just what direction this revolt might take is not quite clear in the article but it is evident that Mr. Roberts was very much impressed by the stories of the old days when students were went to go out and tear down a college building or two before the dawn...
...blue tin. Billy Mundy of the Atlanta Journal sent the game over the radio: "They're huddlin' down there . . . it looks like a crapshooters' formation and Lumpkin is wavin' his arms like he wanted a seven, a touchdown . . . there he goes . . . he's clear . . . he's clear...