Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meantime the backfield men were put through a live tackling drill, with three backs trying to wipe out one defenceless ball carrier. Varsity and Jayvee backs alternated as live targets. When the massacre was over the backs turned their attention to pass attack and defense. The linemen worked out with Adam Walsh. Practice closed with a blackboard talk and signal drill...
...photostat of the check, Moe Buchsbaum triumphantly left the court. In Washington next day Treasury officials said that four private contributions toward extinction of War Debts have been received. In each case the foreign government concerned is queried and only after receiving its O. K. does the Treasury wipe off the debt in question the amount of the gift. Biggest contribution thus far was from a Jugoslav who left his entire estate, all of it tied up in property, to vindicate Jugoslavia which has welched $825,000. Selling the property bit by bit, the Treasury had realized...
...teachers and 3,000 school employes in Chicago began falling into arrears only four years ago. After one payment was made last year (TIME, May 22, 1933), the city manfully managed to stabilize its debt to teachers and em-ployes at something like $25,000,000. How to wipe this out was a problem which took Chicago officials, bankers and newspapers, the Illinois Legislature and courts and the U. S. Congress to solve...
...Rose, knocked the jar to the floor. Out swarmed a brown tide of worms. Over ankles, up legs, through fingers, down necks of shrieking passengers they slimily inched. Calmly Mrs. Rose popped back into her gallon jar as many worms as she could find. She warned all passengers to wipe the slime from their clothes because in it were breeding more worms...
...automobile storage men: After six months of frustration, confusion, contradiction and total inaction on the part of the Recovery Administration the Administration's order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically...