Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same Fair that had flopped financially last year. This time it was managed, not by glorious, gardeniaed Director Grover Whalen, but by Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson. Installed by the bondholders (issues outstanding: $23,000,000) to reduce or wipe out the Whalen deficit, Harvey Gibson did not attempt to remake the fabulous panorama on Flushing Meadows. He simply changed its atmosphere, discarding the austere conception of a World of Tomorrow, promising in its stead "a welcome as sincere and friendly as that of the old-fashioned county fair." Chummy, folksy releases cascaded from the offices of Leo Casey...
Died. Florence (Florrie) Forde (Australian-born, Cockney by adoption), 65, famed London music-hall singer who introduced Tipperary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Aberdeen, Scotland, after a charity performance at which she sang her most famous song: Good byeee, good byeee, wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eyeee...
...when federal marshals raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...
Langhorne, who graduated from the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture in 1926, stated that Professor Hubbard "obviously cannot work under a man who is determined, as is Dean Hudnut to wipe out both the School of Regional Planning and the School of Landscape Architecture...
...morning papers announced that Sir Cyril Norwood, ex-head of Har row (now president of St. John's College, Oxford), had predicted that the war would wipe out Great Britain's public (English for private) schools...