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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

...dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients recovered. Other surgeons have had similarly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones Get Together | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...broomsticks streak through, the stratosphere. Where are the brooms we need tomorrow on good old terra firma? Where are the new brooms that can sweep ignorance and envy and hatred and corruption from the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hallowe'en & Hiroshima | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

Although a large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butts to the Squirrels | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

...intended to conserve materials during the war, would be dropped on Nov. 12. This made sense, as the production of yard goods was rising so fast that the supply would soon be ample (production is now almost double prewar). Forthwith manufacturers began making dresses longer, with a greater sweep to the skirts and with pockets, matching hoods, extra-wide cuffs, sashes, and belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Hold that Hemline | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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