Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before being able to identify land beneath them through the snow. Gauging their position by the shore line, they found Barrow and landed with the snow...
...contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats, called a halt; he thought his grain was being thrashed standing. But a local politician rode up and invited McCormick upon his land. There the contraption reaped six acres in half a day-six men's work. Young McCormick devoted himself...
...Manhattan Joseph P. Day cuts somewhat of a swath. He is the real estate dealer who in January semi-cyclonically sells lots out of doors and in his shirt sleeves. He is the man who, together with Herbert Bayard Swope (dynamic executive editor of the New York World) and other skillful publicists brought the 1924 Democratic National Convention to Manhattan (TlME, Jan. 28, 1924, PRESS). He knows he is well known. Yet last week he declared himself obscured, declared in paid advertisements in Manhattan newspapers: "The Telephone Company never makes mistakes, but just the same they omitted from...
...occur that he might quit. These years of work, these endless efforts, promises, pledges, payments, worries, what not-all had been endured. It was ridiculous to suppose that he would quit. He had only to hang on. Across the whole country he had cut a wide swath of victory. In time, he would mow the rest...