Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving parts" of television are two slim beams of electrons that sweep back & forth 15,750 times in each second. One "scans" the optical image of the scene the "pickup tube" is looking at. The other listens carefully, miles away, and paints an almost identical picture on the screen of the receiver...
Assuming the two Smarts sweep the field, they will ship their boat on the trans-Ttlantic S.S. American to meet the top representatives of all the sailing nations of the world at Tourbay, England, early in August. They would also plan to take in the World Championship Star Association races at Lisbon, later in the month...
...doubles the Tiger again made a clean sweep of things, garnering two of the three matches in straight sets...
...Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...
...second match with the Indians, the Crimson Freshmen administered another setback to the Indians, 6 to 3. Meanwhile, the Jayvees made it a clean sweep at Wellesley with a 4 to 1 victory over Babson Institute...