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Hoover

verb

Clean with a vacuum cleaner. Synonyms: vacuum, vacuum-clean.

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"Hoover" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough. The Americans did more. They gave their heart. Every one of them who came into my country to act as a volunteer for the Commission for Relief, brought with him the sympathy of all the people that were behind him. Every one of these young Americans, who, under the leadership of Mr. Hoover, came into my country to watch the distribution of the foodstuffs imported by the Commission for Relief, became a sincere friend of my countrymen. He stood between us and the Germans as a vigilant sentry of the civilized world, ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... told that the question of food would come to be of paramount importance; he knew that Herbert Hoover had been asked to return to America as soon as he could close his work abroad, and he cabled over to his English representative to arrange that the proposed Food Administrator should know, at first hand, of the magazine and its possibilities for the furtherance ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

Words linked to "Hoover" : clean, attorney, make clean, United States President, trademark, president, industrialist, lawyer, vacuum cleaner, vacuum, Herbert Clark Hoover, President of the United States, Chief Executive