Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part-time postmaster, gets only $252 a year from the department. "Mostly I work on the railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...
...Harvard graduates to form the Free Soil Party. College politics then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party candidate) and the Belles, 1860, Harvard...
...came the first clear indication that Republicanism was not so rampant in the Faculty and Graduate Schools as in the College. Harrison swept the entire University, 1114 to 851, and the College, 674 to 458, but Cleveland took the Graduate Schools, and the Faculty voted 52 to 6 for the Democrat...
Beyond these two items, drivers must look to the city for action. Why the big triangle above the Square and the wide intersection below Claverly cannot be opened for parking remains a mystery which even fire safety officials cannot clear up. These gentlemen, who apparently feel that apparatus can get through the narrow, always crowded streets of the Square, could not reasonably object to parking in these areas which would not block the thoroughfare...
Latin Americans are generally steering clear of the few Communist and Nazi sympathizers who operate south of the border. They continue to follow and even imitate American customs and ideals, Bataillon added...