Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans...
...York Stock Exchange house that bears his name. Already rich in his own right, he got into the grocery business in 1920 by marrying the sole heir of the late Charles William Post, founder of Postum Cereal Co. And throughout the following decade the Huttons cut a wide swath through the society pages of the U. S. Press...
...will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part of the budget message had a tithe of the significance of that one sentence. Yet, in immediate import, other budget points cut a far wider swath in the news...
Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
...spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...