Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America's only living ex-President, Mr. Hoover, delivered a very moral attack on the Roosevelt administration the other night in Kansas City. From the number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance...
...pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping all the time. He has a very distinct idea of how it feels to get out into the clear and watch the safety man dive at him desperately--and miss. It feels grand. And he can take it when the going gets tough, too--uphill all the way. Frankly, at times Vag thinks Mr. Harlow ought to know more about Vag. Just because he sometimes writes pretty sentimental stuff about...
Bolles told his men that fall rowing was the time for individual development. "Now I don't expect you to prepare for a four-mile race." he said "but I hope you'll all show up at Newell Beathouse with clear eyes and a steady step...
...further revealed that if the investigating committee's suggestions are put into effect the Alumni Trustee will have the right to remove from office any member of the "Dartmouth's" staff at any time. This proposal, bringing up as it does a clear issue of University censorship, has aroused bitter opposition from undergraduate sources...
...people with money had just produced the sharpest break in the stock-market since last spring, commodity prices were fluttering, and throughout the nation businessmen were absorbed with one question-how would a major European war affect U. S. business? (Even if no war came at once, it was clear that the threat was likely to remain.) 2) How the U. S. was affected in 1914 is a matter of record. But since then there have been several enormous shifts in the status of the U. S. Secretary Morgenthau mentioned the most significant...