Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puppet governments, in an effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...
Striding forward, Commissioner Foote threatened to wipe out the entire settlement unless the Arab villagers produced and delivered to the British the aged Sheik Farhan al Sadi. After this 75-year-old Arab dignitary had been told of the British ultimatum, he crawled out of a wheat bin, gave himself...
Attempting to wipe out cheating at the University an investigating organization of students has been started under the title of GTG, Gyp the Gypers, according to the News...
...polls last week, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Boss of Jersey's Democracy, opined that his candidate for Governor, Senator A. Harry Moore, would carry his Hudson County stronghold by 130,000 votes. Candidate Moore carried Hudson County by 129,000 votes. Since this was enough to wipe out the leads piled up by his Republican opponent, Preacher Lester H. Clee, in most other New Jersey counties and give Moore a Statewide margin of 744,311-to-699,454, Candidate Clee and his Republican friends promptly charged that their Hudson County workers had been intimidated, began, clamoring...
...Proud Minnesota, whose only defeat this year came at the hands of Nebraska, was expected to wipe out defeats of former years by beating Notre Dame. Instead, fighting all afternoon against great odds, the best Minnesota could do was uncork an extravagant pass, Christiansen to Gmitro to Van Every to King, for one touchdown. Score: Notre Dame 7, Minnesota...