Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a short five-point spurt by game was a clear walk away for the seniors. High scorer for the class of '49 was Nancy Woodman, who popped in 12 of the 21 points. Marion Marshall added seven more to the final score...
...role of the Chinese Red army has never been clear to Westerners, who have been taught to look upon it as a sort of sustained Wat Tyler's rebellion of enraged peasants. Says the Bolton report...
Gershwin at Half-Stance. The orchestra members took the jolts and hard wooden seats good-naturedly, joked as they steered clear of roadside minefields, gazed across 2½ miles of sand at Egypt's main base, Gaza...
...could Soviet physicists avoid such denunciation? The way was clear. In Ogonek (Little Flame), Professor Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, explained: "A Soviet scientist considers any successful work as impossible, in any field of knowledge, without a thorough mastery of the laws of dialectical materialism." Professor Vavilov is something of an authority on such matters. His brother Nikolai, a famous Russian geneticist and an opponent of Lysenko, disappeared mysteriously about 1942 and is believed to have died in a concentration camp...
Economist G.D.H. Cole's brief study of Samuel Butler (which is one of a new British list named the English Novelists Series) is, like Butler himself, full of pig-headed notions, but clear, brisk and never dull...