Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
...forces rushed to Nicaragua bv the Navy Department brought the number of U. S. warcraft in Nicaraguan waters up to 15, and the number of officers and men available up to 4,680?enough to wipe Nicaragua off the map without more than affording much needed practice to professional U. S. sailors and marines...
...need be by a non-University organization, providing the important accessories to table d'hote fare enumerated above, offerings variety in its connected cafeteria, and alert to maintain a high standard both in the cooking and original quality of its food, is the sole satisfactory way for Harvard to wipe out its present dietetic defeat...
...Mary Bethune, negress, founder of the Bethune Cookman College, which has four hundred colored students, ands conditions of so sanguine an aspect that she predicts, "Christian education will wipe out practically all race difficulties in the South." Although a Meneken might object to the qualification of the education, all will agree that such a forecast is most encouraging. The continued payment of the running expenses of this unendowed college, which amount to about $80,000 annually also shows that there is more than thought in the new attitude...
...Washington, the Apple Growers' Union announced the introduction of a contrivance with horizontal revolving rollers and 500 flapping pieces of canvas, to wipe apples. Importance: to allay the impression that poisoning results from arsenic residue left on apples after spraying...