Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Thomas Mann had thus finished the arduous task of getting clear with his ancestry, he started immediately on the next step in his autobiographic way of dealing with problems...
...contrast is clear with one added point. As in America, so at Oxford and Cambridge, athletics are countenanced by the authorities, but they are not, as in America, either given largely to the direction of sporting interests or taken officially under the wing of the authorities. They are supervised much as the individual students are supervised, namely, by men interested in them. The faculty members interested are men who in their other capacities live among the students eat with them, and are friends and advisers...
...Manhattan Curb the day of the news. What he felt about his election, besides gratification, may have been that this time the company he takes in hand is in no hole. It owns many factories, its own asbestos mines. The Merseles genius will have a clear field to try and put fireproof ("try an' burn it") roofing on the whole U. S. without delay...
Should his critics read "The Church Nobody Knows" they would find Bruce Barton making the following points in his own prosaic but clear and modest way about those traditional strangers, Business and the Church...
...would be play. On the fleet flagship Carinthia members of the International Board planned to "hold several meetings," to clear up odds and ends left dangling after its big meeting, prior to embarkation, in Manhattan. International President Harry* H. Rogers was there, jovial but with his duties well in mind. He would be chief exchanger of greetings and ideas with Rotarians of all nations...