Word: cleanness
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Andover has a clean slate in its contests so far this season, having recently overcome the strong Newton High team by means of a goal flipped into the net some ten seconds before the end of the game. In the previous two games the schoolboys defeated the M. I. T. first-year men and trounced Cushing Academy...
...life, since the age of six, I have had to fight the battle of life. This great industry which I now head was started with my life's savings of $1,600. . . . I have never been a quitter. I have tried to fight the game clean. And so, when I found myself and my organizations sentenced to financial death, I determined to fight this battle as I have fought every battle of my life-in the open, and clean...
...They are a fine lot of men," printed the patrician but honest Boston Transcript. "All of them are clean shaven every day. They keep their trousers pressed and their Russian shoes polished...
...fact is that such sensational news is now played down by explicit order of Dictator Benito Mussolini. He wages a ceaseless campaign to keep the press clean, constructive and, of course, subservient. Every Fascist also knows that the only thing which keeps the Pope off the front page in Italy and puts him among the quack nostrum and miscellaneous columns is a recent, quasi-secret order from Il Duce. Moreover, of all recent papal utterances, the encyclical on Education was most explicitly the sort of thing Il Duce will not countenance. In effect the Supreme Pontiff laid down the rule...
...first reason ascribed for intervention was humanitarianism of a Whitman's-burden nature; conditions in Haiti were bad; "anarchy, savagery and repression" prevailed, and troops went in to clean up. Second, the State Department had been pressed not only to protect American interests already in Haiti but to allow these interests--notably the National City Bank--to, extend their activities. Last, we did not want any foreign power intervening in a land that was so near the Panama Canal; the Monroe Doctrine, as it had been reedited, covered any action on the part of a foreign country to protect...