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Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the authors urge that: "Against this cancerous growth in our country and on our campuses, feeding on the virus of white supremacy and brutality generated by the Korean war, the united movement of all students must wipe out every manifestation of genocide, white supremacy, and discrimination from the campus...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Marxist' Magazine Attacks University, Conant, CRIME | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

Captain Charlie Ufford will play first man in singles against the Cadets. The fall Crimson senior needed only two sets in both singles and doubles to wipe his Davil-on College opponents off the courts in Monday's match, won 6 to 3 by Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and Yard Tennis Teams Play Black Knights at West Point | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...long and complicated race for control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific, Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young has had the throttle wide open, but so far has gotten nowhere. Young has been battling an ICC plan which would turn over the now profitable road to the bondholders and wipe out MoPac's 828,395 shares of common stock, more than half of which are owned by Young's Alleghany Corp. (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Young lost his fourth attempt to block the ICC plan, when the U.S. Supreme Court turned down requests by him and four others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Downed Again | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...discouraged attendance) were allowed to declare themselves in favor of private capitalism. A British delegation, respectably headed by Lord Boyd-Orr, listened with interest as one of its members, Left-Wing M.P. Samuel Sydney Silverman, announced that there were enough business orders from Russia and Red China to wipe out the Lancashire textile slump. Then Mikhail V. Nesterov, head of Russia's Chamber of Commerce, oozing cooperation and coexistence, offered to double or triple Russia's imports. He offered to buy British textiles, spices and herring, French electrical equipment and ships, Dutch tin, Belgian rayon, German, Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Two Faces West | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...about $10 million in Florida, but in spite of the harm they do, the flies are not very numerous. Even in the warmest parts of the country, comparatively few survive the winter. Bushland decided that if he could slow their reproduction he might reduce their population or even wipe them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sterile Fifth Column | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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