Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ it to whitewash him." Thereupon punctilious M. Prouvost drew up a proces -verbal, which declared formally that, inasmuch as M. Maurras had not shown up, the duel...
Pennsylvania's Caputo was in fine form as he administered a neat coat of whitewash to the hapless Lions and tied the one-hit pitching performances record established earlier this spring by Tom Healey. Healey's masterpiece was also chalked up against those same Lions...
...Bruins have a couple of good twirlers in Junior Ray McCulloch and Sophomore Walt Juszczyk, and the early season games for the Providence lads have been featured by a 6 to 0 whitewash handed out to Rutgers. The two standout Bear pitchers divided mound duties in that game and allowed but one safe blow--and that was of the scratchy variety--in the nine innings they tolled...
Spongy rubber organs are cast in molds made "by spraying liquid rubber "like whitewash" on human organs. Bundles of rubber bands are used for muscle fibres. Supple rubber phantoms, said the scientists, "might prove better than anything we have...
...with regard to Junior Album and Senior Class elections, little need be said. The provision for eliminating such stigma as has formerly been attached to men chosen by petition, by placing their names in the same category with Student Council nominees, is an excellent idea, although it must inevitably whitewash the publicity-minded undergraduate politicos along with the more worthy men who have a higher conception of office-holding. Also, many minds should be set at ease by the suggestion that future nominations for the Student Council election be made by an enlarged committee with a majority of non-Council...