Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describes, the last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe the slate clean and remove the murals also. At best they are glorified Liberty Bond posters. The great artist who painted them can no more have considered them representative of his best work than President Emeritus Lowell can be believed to have any special attachment for these verses of which...
...grand total of Japanese losses at Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait...
...main reason for urging closer co-operation with Japan is unusual: ... If time modifies the Nipponese crusade, making it less militant and more cultural, less the elevation of a world-Emperor and more the spread of a world accord, she can do a real service in helping to wipe out the petty nationalism that is today plaguing most nations, including Japan." Anti-Japanese readers will certainly believe that lively Author Price is suffering from a Rising Sunstroke...
...over-specialization in the correlated field; second, by making the student acquire another point of view, another method of approach, to problems in the social sciences. Through such administering the system of correlation exams can regain its health, and the doctors, in this case the Divisional Committee, may wipe their hands and feel that at last the round peg has been fitted, not to perfection, but to accomplishment...
...this advice which the Dictator rejected when he decided to wipe out the kulaks, crack down on private traders, and industrialize at super speed. It was made more like a confession by Bukharin's describing it in court last week as "the platform for the restoration of Capitalism, as we visualized it"-whereas neither Editor Bukharin nor his readers in 1929 visualized it as anything but a slower, perhaps better way to "build Socialism...