Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sceptre looked good-from the clean curve of her underbody to the long, sharp sweep of her bow. But just eight months after lucky gold sovereigns were tossed into molten lead and her keel was cast on the shore of Scotland's Holy Loch, Britain's yare challenger for the America's Cup also looked a slow boat. In a dozen tune-up races with an elderly twelve-meter trial horse, Evaine, the gleaming Sceptre had been beaten every time. Last fortnight as Sceptre was hauled out of the water for inspection and checking, squalls of criticism...
Curator Bazin utters a proud Frenchman's protest against comparing Napoleon's vacuum-cleaner sweep of European art with the wholesale robbery by Hitler and Goring. Napoleon, Bazin insists, was motivated by the lofty ideal of creating a new and universal European culture, and was within the ethics of his time. But after Waterloo, Napoleon's conquerors saw Napoleon's operation uplift in another light, stripped the Louvre of 5,233 precious art objects, left little more than 100 canvases and 800 drawings...
...that. After falling scant seconds short in shorter races all season, Cornell finally found the three-mile I.R.A. course just the right distance. Understroking the opposition all the way, the varsity beat Navy by three lengths. Using the same tactics, the Jayvees and Freshmen completed Cornell's second sweep of the lake...
...bonds to a "gigantic sale of I.O.U.s," ticked off future bond issues planned for the next few months, and concluded: "It means that the greatest wave of cash borrowing by our Treasury since the Korean war and the greatest wave of borrowing ever in peacetime is about to sweep our land ... It means that the easy money era which was kicked off this past November will keep running through this period. All borrowers-including you -will be benefited by this...
September, 1929: The country was riding high on a tidal wave which was soon to break hard and sweep away the Big Rock Candy Mountain. That was the month the Class of 1933, nearly one thousand strong, came to Cambridge and Harvard College. President Lowell welcomed the Class to the College, and then followed some serious talk by Delmar Leighton ("Choices of Studies for the Freshman Year") and by an assistant professor of History, Charles H. Taylor ("Freshman Course Requirements...