Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughtful students of international affairs, the opium question is an accurate gauge of the existing degree of international-mindedness. If the powers cannot forego their petty advantages to wipe out a universally recognized menace, the hope for international cooperation is ludicrous. If the inherently selfish aspects of nationalism can in this one case he overcome by a feeling of community of need and action, hopes of the League and of all internationalists will rise. Eventually the Opium Conference will receive either ignominy for spiking the wheels of the new chariot of internationalism, or high praise for aiding the progress...
...Professor Plato C. Durham, President of the Atlanta Christian Council: "We propose to wipe out the Mason Dixon Line from the Kingdom of Heaven. We shall Christianize our race relations...
...Church: N. Y." and "The Kitchen" were no less perfect than the Swanzey, New Hampshire, Annual Band Concert. Strange to say, even the old jokes which had been dusted off for the occasion were greeted with vociferous laughter and prolonged applause. Handkerchiefs which went up more than once to wipe away a tear were suddenly used to stifle laughter. The author has the heart-strings of the audience before him and he plays upon them at will. And his touch is elastic...
...John W. Davis turned his attention to corralling the 45 electoral votes of New York. Following a speech at Albany, he went on to Syracuse and Buffalo. He attacked the "impotence" of the Administration's foreign policy, the "failure" of the Administration to wipe out corruption, the protective tariff and the Ku Klux Klan. Then he retired for a brief rest on his estate at Long Island, only to set forth once more into the Middle West, first into Indiana, speaking at Richmond, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Evansville. . . . He planned then to swing across Illinois to St. Louis...
...During the month of June, 28,605 students were examined and 12,000 were expelled. Many students were arrested as counter-revolutionists' and deported to the very prisons which the nihilists want to wipe off the face of the earth...