Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three of the new coaches come from Portland, Oregon. Stevens has been a champion single sculler and sweep oarsman. He was once a member of the Cornell crew and later assisted as a crew coach. Recently he has been connected with the Portland Rowing Club rowing with Newell on a champion 1923 crew. Shaw comes from the University of Washington where he captained last year's victorious eight...
...possibilities of new political alignment with Mr. Coolidge as Pres- ident are extremely various. With one sweep the jokester, Fate, took all the pieces off one side of the political chessboard; then put them back in new arrangement...
...accurate detail. The city, the customs, the clothes, the personages are on parade. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Brevoort, John Jacob Astor look from the screen at their descendants in the audience. The climax comes when a reconstructed Robert Fulton steams away upon its memorable trial trip, which is to sweep the seas of sailing ships...
...Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march of the race from monkey to man. . . . Are mechanics who dream...
...Etats-Unis in front of the monument to U. S. Volunteers which he had unveiled, said: " Thank God the time is past when we have need cf these volunteers in the Armies of the Republic, who fought and died with us, and who helped in the Lafayette Esquadrille to sweep from the skies the Gothas and Taubes. But how much we need volunteers in every country to fight with tongue and pen to combat the German propaganda which distorts our thoughts and actions and travesties our whole intention...