Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of whispering behind the public's back (due to British refusal to allow publicity) could of course go on forever. But President de Valera bluntly announced that when the Free State Parliament meets April 20 he will introduce "a short amendment, only about 100 words long" to wipe the oath of fealty to the King out of the Free State Constitution...
...loyal Columbia students wipe eggs and tomatoes off the statue of Alma Maler, in the course of rioting following the expulsion of a student editor, three issues stand out: the justice of the editor's criticism of the John Jay dining halls, the justice of his expulsion, and the attitude which University administrators should maintain towards undergraduate editors...
...slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal. '''Onetime slave owners and their heirs are estopped by the U. S. Constitution from collecting any claims for the loss of their "property...
...ring canvas was spattered with blood. Reporters at the ringside held up newspapers to shield themselves. The referee had to wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like...
...last week's proceedings were in the Committee of the Whole House and the votes, representing scarcely half the membership, were taken without roll calls. It was possible but not probable that the regular leaders could later wipe out the coalition's handiwork when the Committee of the Whole rose and the amended bill was put to a series of formal votes...