Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson line, with guards Dick Row and Endy Peabody pulling out, blocked beautifully, while occasionally tackle Tom Gardener would also come around to clear out the hole. On off-tackle smashes, usually with Spreyer carrying, the Yardlings were piling three men ahead of the runner as interference. Ted Lyman, blocking back, did a superlative job on cleaning out the Blue backers...
...keep skyways clear, the Army arranged for Eastern Airlines to stay out of the defense area at specified periods. One came in anyway, was chased by 9 pursuit planes...
...contribution to a fund; and that the contribution was to be in my honor as a "champion of democracy" and to go to Dr. Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic. Dr. Miller wrote, "I wish to protest against this." Just what he meant by "this" is not clear...
That Elizabeth Madox Roberts was lost in one of these treacherous literary culs-de-sac became painfully clear to most critics three years ago, when she published her obscure, mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven. A difficult, humorless book, it had nothing of the earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity that made her first novel, The Time of Man, a best-seller and a critic's favorite. Instead of plain Kentucky hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about...
...that an incredibly handsome actress would be necessary to explain her hold on Philip; big scenes-like the shooting of a captured German officer-take place off stage; and all Philip's long explanations of his reasons for aiding the Loyalists prove nothing except that he is not clear about it himself...