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Word: spotless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constancia de la Mora was born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...possibility that the Bollesmen can sink the Elis and thus set a precedent is great, with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Scrubbed annually and painted in alternate years, the white subterranean walls are spotless. To further insure cleanliness, food is conveyed in covered food-wagons, along constantly mopped floors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunnels Between House Dining Halls Comprise Underworld of University | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reprieve | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...conclusion two workmen in spotless white overalls applied more mortar and guided the stone into place with a professional air. President Conant announced that the stone was properly laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNERSTONE FOR LITTAUER CENTER LAID BY FOUNDER | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

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