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Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work from now on will, of course, have as its chief feature intensive preparation for the triangular regatta on Saturday. The Navy is eager to wipe out last year's defeat at the hands of Princeton, while Dr. Spaeth is reported to have as strong a crew as usual to uphold the Orange and Black. If the weather conditions are favorable, Saturday should see one of the prettiest races of years on the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOATING DECIDED FOR COMING RACE | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

...there is some merit in the idea. Surely Falstaff or Malvolio should be able to wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRUTUS ON BROADWAY | 4/26/1922 | See Source »

...riper age, which, having labored well, finds its highest accomplishment in dying for a cause believed-in. We have not forgotten. Those in the world who truly felt deeply in wartime, whose innermost beings were stirred, did gain something from the years of trial which time cannot wipe away. But we have glossed over the marks, a protecting covering has grown over the wounds, so that not all prying eyes about us may see. We guard our sorrows, our losses, for ourselves. They are hot things for public show. So we take this second volume and read it in silence...

Author: By J. W. D. seymour, | Title: NEW VOLUME OF HARVARD WAR MEMOIRS | 3/10/1922 | See Source »

...soviet is a name used in society for a napkin. A napkin is used to protect the clothes and after eating to wipe the remains of food from the mouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE--" | 3/7/1922 | See Source »

...will include four players who did not start the Boston University contest last Saturday, H. S. Grew Jr. '24, B. M. Henry '24, C. F. Tierney '22 and F. J. Johnson '22. These four changes have been made by Coach Fisher after a week of experimentation and attempts to wipe out the defects which came to light against B. U., especially in the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS BRINGS VETERAN TEAM TO FACE CRIMSON ELEVEN IN STADIUM | 10/1/1921 | See Source »

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