Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond's old admirer, the Radcliffe Daily, is no more. She exists still in spirit, as the Radcliffe News-Daily, but the spark which made her is gone, for she appears only thrice a week, and has lost her trim slimness. She has time before each issue to wipe her spectacles, arrange the knot on the back of her head a bit more neatly, and write a reflective editorial full of concise, trenchant phrases about poetry and politics, or war debts. It is thus that she has lost caste. There was a day, in the years gone by, when...
...tank. A friend of the Brothers Powers is Henry Collier Wright, president of the Queensboro Tuberculosis Association. Mr. Wright last year heard Dr. Jay Arthur Myers of the University of Minnesota medical school declare that If every case of incipient tuberculosis in children could be discerned, doctors could ultimately wipe it out. Mr. Wright told this to Tinkerer Frank Powers who mused, perfected a system which would take 100 positive x-ray pictures on a roll of paper without using celluloid film at all. With Cloyd Mason Chapman, onetime Edison engineer, he then developed an x-ray machine which automatically...
...billion cigarets in 1932, some 18 billion less than last year. Practically all of this loss will go to the10? cigaret. What can Messrs. Hill, Williams, Toms & Belt do about it? FORTUNE suggests five possible ways of eliminating 10? competition: 1) Raising the price of tobacco just enough to wipe out the ten-centers' profit margin. This can be done by heavy buying, but surplus stocks over a long period would hurt the 15-centers. 2) Ceasing their opposition to governmental increase of cigaret taxes from $3 to $3.50 per 1,000, an expensive remedy. 3) Cutting prices...
...letters Lawrence wrote him to be published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo, but I won't promise not to betray you?' W7ell, you can't betray me, and that's all there is to that. Ergo, just leave off loving me. Let's wipe off all that Judas-Jesus slime. Remember, you have betrayed everything and everybody up to now." Critics may dig long before they strike a better summation of Lawrence than one he gives himself: "And my Cockneyism and commonness are only when the deep feeling doesn't find...
...Dearest Dear: Unfortunately, this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation. You understand that last night was only a comedy. Paul...