Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only voluminous histories can retrace the steps of post-War diplomacy, unravel post-War complexities. But refreshing memories of events since the Armistice makes last week's war news seem less abrupt, the transition from post-War to pre-War less startling. Against the broad sweep of history, that period is brief-246 months, 1,063 weeks, 7,453 days, time for 20 wheat crops, for 20 classes to graduate...
...Jacobin. Much attention has been focused on his thorny character, little on his role in history. The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness. In the sense that any interest in Stevens is new, Author Alphonse Miller contributes a useful biography, benefits largely by the sweep of the historical and political drama...
...Crimson oarsmen today swing into their first competitive action of the year with prospects for a clean sweep as the Varsity, Freshmen, and Jayvees meeting M. I. T., Rutgers, and B. U. on the Charles. Bert Haines' 150's race a similar crew from the down river Institute...
...died, Aliquippans took up a collection to move his body from potter's field, and buy him a tombstone. Reason: Last summer when oldster Izzo, an Italian immigrant, was put on relief, he looked at his first weekly check for $3.60, seized a broom and went out to sweep the streets six hours a day, six days a week, explaining: "I think this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this country. ... So I start to sweep. . . . My bread it tastes sweet and I feel like a man because I work...
...then, up in the House came a bill to authorize the building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their...