Word: swath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard by, the Great Smoky Mountains park, a 327,000-acre swath of Blue Ridge territory, six to ten miles wide, between Front Royal and Waynesboro in Virginia, is to be secured as the Shenandoah National park. Last week, the $4,000,000 fund necessary for this project was reported within $100,000 of completion...
...scout a 250-mile swath of sea with 25 miles between ships-10 cruisers...
...Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough and rational; but a great swath is cut among League idealists by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, a weak antidote to Churchill and Birkenhead...
...Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
Since that engagement down in the nation's capital, Georgetown has cut a wide swath in collegiate baseball ranks, until its nine ran afoul of Holy Cross at Worcester last Saturday. There Burch was chased from the mound by a salvo of hits that produced eight runs in the fifth, while Davidson of Holy Cross pitched shutout ball throughout the contest, holding his opponents to two hits. The two Georgetown counters that made the final score 9 to 2 came in on errors...