Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence of God before the State was wholly antithetical to Bolshevik ideals. Professing these principles it is no great wonder that the Revolution swirled angrily over Protestantism and sucked away its foundations, more by the power of what is loosely termed "propaganda" than by direct persecution. But whatever...
Another of the delightful tales of the regimentation in the Chemistry department concerns the mechanism for seeing that desks are left clean. The students are informed with great emphasis that they must wash their desks after they have finished work. But this information is not all. They are also told that if they fail to wash a desk, a note reminding them of that fact will be slipped into their desks by an assistant. A duplicate note will be sent the office, whence will emanate toward the presumably terrified offender a letter, couched in solemn, hortatory tones. This entire process...
...Tenino, Wash., D. M. Major, publisher, justice of the peace, published this advertisement in his newspaper...
...picnicking with my wife and 16-year-old son on Chatham Island. I observed a heavy wash coming down the Gulf [of Georgia] from the north. I thought at first it was just a tide rip. Then I was amazed to see huge coils come out of the top of the water like a snake. . . . The total length of these coils must have been at least 80 ft. and they were five feet thick, I should think. They came twisting out of the water so high that I could see light under them...
...waved it about as if it were getting its bearings. It was some 500 yards away and I could not see the exact shape of its head, but it was much thicker than the body. Then it sank down into the water again and sped away, making a great wash of white foam...