Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your story in TIME and like it very much. And we would like to join your expedition. We are capable of doing the work on a ship for instance we can run errands, shine shoes, scrub decks, we have very sharp eyes, we will have them tested, wash and wipe dishes, and can keep our eyes open -till midnight. We are not scared of anything. We are faithful till the last moment and we are good digers, we can row a boat. We are 9 years...
According to the Kremlin, Russia last week was still full of "Enemies of the People"-Trotskyists and saboteurs hired by Fascist powers. Not less vigorous than Stalin's denunciation of them was his continued campaign to wipe them...
...manage his epiglottis so that nothing but air is sucked into his lungs. Otherwise, he would certainly develop pneumonia and die. To reduce the danger of germs getting into his lungs, his two Chinese nurses wear gauze over their mouths and noses when they brush his teeth, shave him, wipe his nose, or deal otherwise with his head...
...Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought him out in the dusty camp just to tell him that she would have nothing to do with...
Whole Hog, Abruptly from Rome this week came official press outbursts which many Fascists thought presaged whole-hog intervention in Spain by Italy to wipe out the stain of the "Little Caporetto." Il Duce's newsorgans smeared Russia, France and Mexico with charges that those Governments have run arms to the Spanish Leftists in a whole list of instances which the Rome press hotly particularized, roasting especially "France's flagrant violations of the neutral Non-intervention accord signed at London...