Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copying the strategy employed by Foch in his final drive against the Germans in 1918, had been concentrating his forces first at one point and then at another, and was now about to consolidate the points of vantage in a final drive upon the heights of Bribane, which would sweep on until Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
Such were the headlines that appeared last week after he had beaten Lacoste in the Davis Cup challenge round, which the U. S. players, as had been expected, won by a clean sweep from the French...
...July 2 the baton of Conductor Serafin of the Opera, Buenos Aires, commenced to tap, to sweep in great circles, to dip, slither, crash. For two months not Ted Lewis' favorite wand exceeded it in frenzy. Then on Aug. 31 "A cabado !" (perfect, complete!), cried Serafin. "Delicioso," cooed the senoritas. "Bravo! Bien!" throated generous caballeros...
Lounging about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...