Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many coaches merely pray for clear weather instead of being prepared for rain with a weapon which clicks any day. Rain jeopardizes passes, mud curtails fancy running plays, but kicking rises in effectiveness in bad weather. Teams must kick twice as often in bad weather and better kicking wins...
...strengthen our "good neighbor" policy by doing our best to clear up the current oil problems in Mexico...
Fortunately, out of the tremendous complications of the problem, there are emerging some clear-cut and comprehensible issues. The crux of the matter might now be stated as follows: The Administration is persisting in its general policy of creating associate professorships only when there are predictable vacancies--over a certain span of years--in the full professor bracket. In accordance with this policy, ten assistant professors were released last spring, since no positions higher up were seen to be open for them within the next ten years. This action was taken in spite of the fact that several...
Here is an issue which can be brought out into the light of day. And one thing is clear: that the Administration will have its hands full dealing with the advocates of these men who have been wronged, and with faculty champions of efficient undergraduate teaching...
What Thoreau really meant by his life was even less clear to succeeding generations, began to clarify at last under the triumph of industrialism, the rise of dictatorships. In the 1930s this "friend of woodchucks and enemy of the State emerges as the most read and most readable U. S. writer of his time...