Word: cleanness
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...painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors...
...thus, while the captains and sergeants depart with a clean slate, there is no little gloom among the shops sartorial, tonsorial, and cosmetic that flaunt their signs around the Common. The great public continues its patronage, but, just as Harvard has said it will not employ their services, so Boston's police report that they need them...
...Bottle Night" is an annual Yale clean-up demonstration. Dormitory inmates assemble at opened casements to hurl the season's collection of bottles, kickshaws, flotsam and jetsam out on the campus to be carted away the following morning...
...light of the consequences of the case, however, the finding of the jury was the only possible one. If there is really to be an attempt made to clean up the graft in the state government a beginning had to be made somewhere, and even the citizens of New York, accustomed as they are to the manipulations of Tammany, might object to such open toleration of dishonesty as an acquittal would indicate. On the other hand, the more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many...
...Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are all the modern appliances for air, light, production, safety. Run on an open-shop basis, it employs some 750 men steadily, 300 days in the year. The town is clean. The Mather men are contented...