Word: scrubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between...
...relations of Harvard with the public press have in the past been more than unsatisfactory. The way the scrub-woman case was handled is a notable example. One of the outstanding policies of the CRIMSON has been to emphasize the true value of harmonious dissemination of University news to the metropolitan dailies. Recently the University, in its public relations bureau and H. A. A. News Service, has shown welcome signs of a realization that it serves itself as well as facilitating the work of correspondents...
Hanover, N. H., Oct. 23--Dartmouth rounded out its preparation for the Harvard encounter this afternoon in a long practice on Memorial Field, with much of the time being given to drill against the Crimson plays put on by a specially trained scrub team...
Recently fortune has frowned on kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Augustine. Year ago he was driven from power. Month ago, interned by the government on an estate at Kroettingen as a menace to public safety he made an abortive effort to escape (TIME, Aug. 11). Fortnight ago Mme Waldemaras went to a fortune teller. The oracle, emerging from his trance, informed Mme Waldemaras that her husband would regain political power over the bodies of twelve persons. She went back to the internment farm and that night M & Mme Waldemaras drew up a little list. First on the list was Colonel Rusteika...
Last week came more news of kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...