Word: clears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly police went to work. Army sappers were rushed to clear away a ten-foot mass of debris. To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up. Someone started a wildfire rumor that lights meant peace: the Netherlands-Belgium offer had taken effect. Soon Germany's second hysterical false armistice was in full celebration. Police angrily cleared the streets and killed the hope...
...made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind on the question of good or bad taste. Consequently we think that Mr. Greene should rescind his denial of a hall and, by doing so, he will certainly show the good taste of a gentleman. For the Harvard Socialist League, Richard Pitts '41, President...
...question of free speech is not involved if facts are taken at their face value. Browder was granted permission to speak at Harvard on a certain date. Meanwhile, he was indicted on criminal charges of passport invasion; so his speaking permission was revoked. From this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden of proof rests upon those...
...clear conclusion to which this reviewer came was that Harvard's war is both more clear-cut in its aims and more vigorously conducted than the odd affair which is languishing on the Western front...
Since it is clear to most observers that the President wants to help the Allies in every way short of war, it seems likely that his heart was never really in the cash and carry law. To him it was no more than a quick way to drive a shrewd political bargain. And now the Panama registry plan has evidently appeared to the President an easy means of retrieving a part of the price he had to pay. With it, he can not only do the Allies a good turn, but also placate the aroused shipping interests...