Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 21, 1938, a tropical hurricane out of its orbit swarmed through New England like a banshee on a binge. From Long Island Sound to the tip of Maine it cut a swath 300 miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board feet of lumber. To get this average five-year cut into ponds, into neat stacks before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some...
Since September 21, meteorologists have devoted much study to the hurricane which on that day cut a swath of destruction through New England. Last week Director Charles Franklin Brooks of Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory at Milton, Mass., declared that sea spray picked up by the storm was carried 50 miles inland...
Fortnight ago spring cyclone cut a swath of political destruction through a group of New Deal lieutenants who had sought to "purge" Senator Guy Mark Gillette from the party in Iowa's Senatorial primary (TIME, June 13). Last week Franklin Roosevelt picked up the pieces and prepared for more rough political weather. He was at pains to soothe hurt feelings by inviting Senator Gillette to Sunday luncheon. Son James, who had helped "My Friend Otha Wearin," Gillette's opponent, wrote the Senator a nice note...
...that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
...have Everything," currently headlined offering at the University, audiences want to know first "How Are the Ritz Brothers?". The rest they know almost before the picture starts. This is a program musical, pretty well wrapped up and dished out by Don Ameche, smoothing his insouciant swath, and Alice Faye, plugging her puckering path, through the regulation reel length...