Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously, with typewriters...
Worst danger: any time in the future, machines may escape man's "poor discipline" in a two-hour mechanized warfare in which, according to Author Chase, all the cities of the world will wipe out one another...
...Foreign Legion, rushed with 8,000 men to the relief of the besieged garrison at Ait Yacoub, Jacob's Hummock (TIME, June 24). Ait Yacoub was relieved. General Freydenberg wired the French Ministry of War that he was preparing, in accordance with the old Foreign Legion custom, to wipe out the offending Moors...
...Hello! Hello! Hello! Yes, I'm here. I'm speaking. Who are you? It's Scotland Yard! The Yard asks you a favor, ladies and gentlemen, not to wipe your wine glasses, as the waiters and plain-clothes men are taking fingerprints...
...brief, "All the King's Men" is a play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...