Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brighton police, who have jurisdiction on the Stadium side of the river, are cooperating with C. F. Getchell, General Manager of the H. A. A. in a determined effort to wipe out ticket speculators. Three professional speculators were lately caught and fined $10 each, losing as well the tickets in their possession at the time of their arrest. Probably the only seats unoccupied during the Army and Dartmouth games were those held by the Brighton force as evidence of the unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must...
...back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy...
Determined to repeat its victory of the 1928 season and wipe out the stain of 13 former defeats, the Army football squad arrived in Boston last night. The odds stand at even money and all indications point toward a close struggle in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon...
...Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting troops to mutiny against the new government." In the country he sent bus loads of soldiers careening over dusty roads to remove guns and munitions from rural arsenals lest they be seized by rioters. Only then did he sit down, wipe his pink brow, and rest. He needed the rest. Worried friends last week reminded each other that for many years Policeman Schober's heart has been none too strong...
...dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held longer, to raise the greatest army of women the world has ever known and wipe man out of existence...