Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the Puritans took only one first in the five single entry events, they clinched he meet by a clean sweep of the two relay races: the 150-yard medley relay in 1 minute 35.9 seconds and the 200 yard free style relay in 1 minute 57.3 seconds...
...Missouri (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and still a third way in the Akali Party which represents India's tough, handsome, primping Sikhs. Last week Akali headquarters cracked down on four members who confessed supporting a Congress Party candidate in last July's elections. All four were ordered to sweep the floor of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar. Then each got individual punishment...
...will be the Geiger counter, which registers even feeble radiation. Public-health officials may learn to carry them. Soldiers and diplomats, too, may find use for Geiger counters. When the Russians master atomic energy and explode their first test bomb in darkest Siberia, its radioactive by-products will sweep around the world in the upper atmosphere. Geiger counters will announce the news to every foreign office...
...Army's sweep through Manchuria swept up, among other industrial loot, a Japanese optical-goods factory at Mukden. On the guard-box at the factory entrance (see cut) Russian soldiers painted Prince Alexander Nevsky's triumphant boast after his Russians had crushed the invading Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus...
...speaks of the Catholic "submissiveness" as being the broad base of Catholic power in the U.S. GAD!! Does he really believe we Catholics are such a powerful political force? Doesn't he remember Alfred E. Smith, a REAL American Catholic, and how the "powerful" Catholic vote DID NOT sweep Smith into the presidency...