Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...
...Cook and Don Munding, Yale's brilliant Sophomore divers, ought to sweep first and second against Harvard's George Dana and Chet Sagenkahan, although Dana may conceivably take a second if one of the Elis has an off-day. Both Crimson divers are ending their springboard careers this evening...
...going tougher for the Russians, it would also thaw out their frozen northern army, bring better bombing weather. As if to give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale-the Russian air force last week made a clean sweep of the south of Finland, sparing only Helsinki, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in Hamina, Kotka, Hanko, Turku, Lahti, Riihimaki, Kouvola, Tampere, Porvoo, Karjaa...
...said, "is a profession which demands a tremendous sweep of knowledge. In order fully to understand the Infinitely varied claims that the lawyer has to argue, he must be a truly civilized man. I therefore heartily approve of the broad college program made possible by the new combined fields and the proposed area concentration...
...recognized experts in Beethoven-rendition. The Weingartner is well-read, albeit a little conservative but gives Beethoven itself a chance rather than garbing it in a cloak of false colors. The Furtwaengler is a truly magnificent recording, not as literal as the Weingartner, but with tremendous sweep and surge, and recorded beautifully, even though it was issued several years ago. The Furtwaengler is best, but all three are better than Maestro Toscanini's version which sound like the "Hoof Movement" from the "Overture to William Tell...