Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that one of our greatest problems is located in the vicinity of Hanover, New Hampshire," reads a semi-official statement of the W.C.T.U. The Harvard Stadium clean-up squad, entrusted with the task of clearing away empty bottles from beneath the stands, has often sympathized with that organization after visits of the Indian team to Cambridge. It is only too clear that serious temptation lies in the way of any clean American youth at Dartmouth College...
Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...
...should be clear that the U. A. W. is not severing its relations with the C. I. O., but that Homer Martin is deserting both the U. A. W. and the C. I. O."-Philip Murray & Sidney Hillman (for Mr. Lewis) to Homer Martin...
...reminded the world that Barcelona had smashed the local Fascist uprising in July 1936 with speed and vigor not duplicated anywhere else in Spain. The revolutionary Anarchists, Communists and Socialists-who had learned their discipline and their politics in the only large industrial centre in the country-proceeded to clear Catalonia of Franco forces and chase them half way across Aragon...
Last week Wholesaler Judson was summoned to Washington to testify before the Federal Communications Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U. S. music was organized and run as unromantically as any chain store, or stockyard...