Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that no actual German military aggression had taken place gave Russia and the democracies a chance to turn their eyes from the eastbound Nazi steam roller. The German-Rumanian treaty, which in time is expected to reduce if not wipe out all commerce between Rumania and other States, provides that...
...urging student councils and university newspapers to take up the cause the committee hopes "to wipe the national campuses clean." Attempts will be made immediately, according to Sachs to enlist State legislatures in the anti-syphilis drive. He urged the passage of laws requiring Wasserman tests before issuance of marriage licenses...
...seas for more than a century. This missionary enterprise throughout the world, despite the late lean years, still spends $50,000,000 a year. Yet there has persisted a vague belief among average uninformed Christians that the main job of missions is to teach ABC's to, wipe the noses of, and put pants on little black, brown and yellow people whose conception of Christianity is about that of a Sunday-school squidget...
Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. A Republican official told correspondents the Rebels' offensive was no longer a military operation, it.was "a police...