Word: cleanness
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...Armyists tramp lustily through the streets, Hindus is forced to contrast their robust health, good, clean uniforms, and strong shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea...
...Nine Pennsylvania "captive" coal miners, scrubbed clean, hesitant, impressed but not overawed, were shown into the President's office last week. Some 20,000 of their colleagues were still on strike, in spite of the President's conference with their employers week before which guaranteed them the "checkoff" system an< union recognitions (TIME, Nov. 6). Before they quit striking, they wanted to be sure that the forthcoming election to select their representatives would be run on the square, that the operators would introduce no "ringers." General Johnson and President Roosevelt agreed to send National Labor Board representatives...
...mink is a long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
...Wright, her store manager, intimated that a buyer willing to operate the store as "ethically" as it has always been operated might still get it at "a very advantageous buy" but he added (in announcing a liquidation sale of the firm's jewels): "A business that has lived clean for 131 years is not going to die dirty." Painfully lamented in the jewelry trade is the present want of buyers. Insurance firms report increases in jewelry insurance during the last few months, but trace them to people taking their jewels out of vaults and wearing them...
...Honest officials using honest methods are Boston's only salvation. Young men, college students and graduates, are greatly needed to help clean up the corruption and graft in present day politics. Young blood, with new ideas, would promote the general welfare...