Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these circumstances most prophets thought that the conference would soon break up; and the much heeded dean of British journalists, James L. Garvin, wrote with asperity in the Observer: "Men big enough and broad enough to be worthy of our two countries would sweep away all of this complicated haggling...
...they will probably have a ding-dong battle throughout the four miles to the New London bridge, for although Yale has the edge in experience, the crews are almost equally powerful. Yale's advantage in experience--six Elis have raced the four gruelling miles as opposed to four Harvard sweep-swingers, and Laughlin has rowed two winning races while Watts has never set the pace in a four-mile contest--gives the Blue whatever slight pre-race odds there...
...Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept two out of three into death during the great epidemics of the middle centuries, so this modern Black Plague periodically sweeps two out of three from the ranks of reasonable men and therefore deprives them for the time of the right to al themselves civilized. The doctor has eradicated the old Black Plague, or has driven it into the dark corners of the earth. Never again will it sweep the crowd in cities, striking...
...been sufficiently cheapened and demoralized beyond recognition the author turns to Roman stupidity, brutality and licentiousness which he riotously portrays without causing the reader to blnk an eyelash. His obstreperous satire becomes annoying when it is detected as so obviously blatant and artificial. It might be justifiable to sweep all of the heroism away from the character of Caesar, but there should be a motive for such an action. Satire without an objective is innate...
Half a century or more ago Harvard was under the kind of leadership which could feel and understand the broad sweep of educational history before it was made. So Harvard made history herself. She was in the forefront of the great metamorphosis which freed the American university of the eighteenth century and pushed it ahead into the twentieth within three decades...