Word: cleanness
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...little thing crept to the bow and took flight, climbing rapidly and straight away over the sea. Another bee followed, then another, another. On the Lexington's flight deck, the concatenation of motors was heightened by one motor opened almost to its limit. Up the clean wood deck, between the broad yellow guide lines, darted the first of the Lexington's little broad-winged, single-seated biplane fighters, light blue below, yellow on top, with thunder-bolting eagles on its sides. Away it shot over the concave precipice of the ship's square bow; faltered, lifted, droned...
Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur called upon admen to clean up U. S. landscapes defaced by billboards...
...winners thus kept clean a record which they have held since their season opened adding the Harvard scalp to their belt on which already hang six. In the opening minutes of play the Eli players sent a fire of shots against Gulick, the Harvard goalie, who let five of them slip by. Salmon was substituted in his place, and in the remainder of the game he stopped 13 out of 15 shots...
Just why the Mayor should choose at this time to drag forth such musty bones from his political closet is a trifle obscure. Obviously the attempt would be but a feeble one if merely intended to make sweet and clean the name of Curley in the mind of the general public. Besides, elections are far away. Perhaps he feels that Boston supporters will look with approval on the stern chastisement of smart young Harvard fellers. And then, there is the remote possibility that the Mayor...
...mimic maneuvers were to bomb the financial district, clean out a defense post at Columbus Circle, strafe the Hotel St. Regis as a theoretical centre of resistance (Navy umpires atop the hotel scored the attack). Formations were temporarily broken as the attackers engaged in imaginary cat-&-dog fights high over the city's craning millions. Proudest witness of the spectacle was David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics, the Navy's prime War ace, whose earnest purpose it is to impress citizens with the necessity for, and perfection of, the Navy...