Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brothers to Christ's Vicar. This week the cardinals-designate, who in their persons bear witness to the imperial sweep of the Church of Rome, reached the Holy City for the ceremonies that would make them not only princes of the Church, but brothers and counsellors to the man they look upon as Christ's Vicar on Earth. They came as pilgrims, but for some the pilgrimage was at 20th-century speed...
...Uncle Sam" (Twain) gave Webster a flying start by putting him in charge of the Kaolatype-a brand-new chalkplate process for engraving illustrations. "This invention," wrote Twain confidently, ". . . will utterly annihilate and sweep out of existence one of the minor industries of civilization. ... I wish to give you $100 of its stock, now, anyhow, & make you Vice President & Treasurer-also Manager. . . . Act fearlessly & with decision...
...messenger of heaven has descended to sweep and cleanse...
Safety in Smoke. Other CWS researchers made fire into a weapon to sweep whole cities. When Japanese planes swarmed over Pearl Harbor the U.S. had not a single incendiary shell or bomb in stock. Military bigwigs were not even interested. But CWS went to work and turned out 260,000,000 of them...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, mouse-quiet since the Democratic sweep in the New York City elections (TIME, Nov. 19), suddenly spoke up in a voice that had loud tones of renewed hope...