Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today we stand, as we did in the closing months of 1915, at the beginning of an upward sweep of the whole price structure. ... By April 1917, the wholesale price index had jumped 63%; by June 1917, 74%, and by June 1920, it was nearly 140% over the October 1915 mark...
Often the dark stalwarts of the 41st sing while marching at attention. In regimental reviews, they like to sweep past at the double-quick, their faces ashine with sweat and pride. As working engineers, they built three swimming pools, also six concrete bomb shelters for artillery observers at Fort Bragg. They also created a 25-acre lake and use it for landing exercises and practice in assault boats. A kibitzer at this drill last week was New York's Congressman (and Reserve Colonel) Hamilton Fish Jr., who was an officer in a Negro regiment in World...
Throughout all journalism's history. Jimmy is the only janitor ever to become a columnist in a single day. In the spring of 1921, broke, he answered a News want ad for a copy boy who would sweep out on Sundays. On his first Sunday at work, Phil Payne, then city editor, asked him who he was, recognized his name as a famed footballer, gave him the Inquiring Fotographer assignment. The column was a transplanted Chicago Tribune feature, but it had always been assigned more or less at random to a staff writer accompanied by a cameraman, and Jimmy...
...season's classic races for juveniles; defeating two of his stablemates, Some Chance and Wishbone, by two and six lengths respectively; before a crowd of 30,000; at Chicago's Arlington Park. Of the $48,750 purse, Owner Wright pocketed $47,250-a rare clean sweep, in a major U.S. stake race, of first, second and third-place money. Fourth ($1,500) went to Hal Price Headley's Anticlimax...
...Eagle Squadron drew its first blood last week. In a daylight sweep over German-occupied French territory, these U.S. fliers who had volunteered into the R.A.F. had been ordered to cling to the wings of a bomber squadron, and not run jauntily off for dogfights...