Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles G. Dawes announced his intention of retiring to his cool retreat at Evanston, Chicago suburb, during the summer recess of the Senate. Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the Democratic National Committee during its disastrous fall campaign, announced that he had raised $250,000 of the amount necessary to wipe out the campaign deficit of $260,000 which the Democrats had incurred; also that he did not believe that John W. Davis would be a candidate for the next Democratic nomination...
...indicted by the Westchester County Grand Jury for "perjury and neglect of duty", just the things he had tried to wipe out at Sing Sing. Indignation was aroused throughout the country, however, and the judge dismissed the indictment without even bothering to hear the defendant's plea He finally resigned in October, 1916 after completing his reform at Sing Sing
...wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...
Deducting from this loss some items of unassignable revenue, the actual loss is about $40,000,000 a year, according to this calculation. The obvious thing to do, under such circumstances, is to boost the rates on services which show large losses?wipe out the deficits on second and third class mail and on registered matter. Then not only would the deficit be made up, but also nearly enough revenue would be provided to make possible the proposed pay increase...
Perhaps this consideration would not prevent Congress from increasing rates so as to wipe out, at least partially, the second class deficit, were it not for the fact that the newspapers and magazines are run by human beings who very urgently resent any curtailment of their profits. The suggestions for raising second class postal rates have been generally confined to increases on the rates for advertising matter* on which publishers receive revenue; but the publishers are no whit appeased. Already, the press is crying aloud that it is abused, saying "the estimate of the second class deficit is too large...