Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operations of the brain,--and after making several remarks about its formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel end of a large horn in such a way that whenever Professor Saunders spoke the streak of light on the screen waved, reproducing exactly the sound waves...
...probably during his life on these islands that he conceived the idea that there might be a land across the Atlantic Ocean, for he found washed up on the beach by the gulf stream, which flows north from North America to sweep south past Spain to these islands, bits of wood unknown in Europe or Africa, also carved pieces which could not possibly have been the work of European hands...
...growing feeling of dissatisfaction with the present Republican administration is causing a wave of Democratic sentiment to sweep the country...
...comprehend Einstein, the German may be trying to keep the natural resources out of French hands by using their forests for pulp. At any rate when the printing of the mark has come to a period, one may wonder whether, "if seven maids with seven brooms should sweep for seven years," they could ever clean up the mess...
...year is that they are giving most of their thoughts, labor and hope to football. Princeton students may or may not do a little skylarking with the Ku Klux Klan, but it is certain that they are not so much interested in the talk of the Klan sweeping the colleges as they are in the immensely more vital question whether the Princeton forwards will be able to sweep through the Harvard line. The New York Times