Word: cleanness
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Meanwhile a private concern, the National Potash Co., has discovered that oil wells at Paducah in western Texas yield 22% of potash. They sank a 1,600-ft. well, hoping for a yield of clean potash, but got too little for profit. They will sink five more test wells, they said last week...
...Retirement has its uses for the man of many contacts. Small breaches heal or become clean cut. Afterwards the way is sometimes clearer...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...
...feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Ultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of the fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives, and the feeling that each should do his bit for the betterment of society...