Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to vary from .0008 to .0004 of an inch. He sought a chemical means of making them combine into drops big enough to fall of their own weight. Having found it and used it last week at Round Hill, he now thinks ocean liners might use it to sweep their paths clear, airports might use it to help incoming planes land...
...home of Adolf Hitler and hatching ground of the Roehm Mutiny fortnight ago. Last week Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...
Before departing for fun on the deep. President Roosevelt last week made a clean sweep of "must" jobs. Day by day he gradually waded through the big legacy of bills left by Congress. In his favorite frank way he announced that would resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters...
...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...
...reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened and why it has happened. As a human being I cannot justify it. . . . The German people may have learned what it means...