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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wleman: "It was our turn to sweep some team off its feet in the first quarter. We really clicked at times against Brown...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHATS HIS NUMBER? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...whole, the stellar performance of these banditti merits the attention of football coaches throughout the country who are interested in building an offense based on deception. With one of the artful dodgers in the backfield, the hidden ball trick would sweep the country again...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: What's His Number? | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...president of meat-packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Spam for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Allen Duncan and her Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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