Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakest part of her repertoire of talents. Consequently she suffers from the inertia of motion picture directors who go the path of least resistance, rely largely on dialogue and consistently fail to develop the vast scope of the camera. The result is a decline in pictorial beauty, dramatic sweep, and imaginative appeal. "Carolina" is more of a step towards pictorial technique than most of the shows today but the undeveloped possibilities of changing scene, mass action, and human emotion undisturbed by nasal utterances are still great...
...permeated the German nation would not halt at the frontier posts of a country which for centuries was an integral part of the German Empire." Two weeks late, Germany replied to Austria's plaintive note citing specific examples of German-inspired Nazi outrages in Austria. With a cavalier sweep wholly unsatisfactory to Vienna, Berlin abruptly denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch. If that was so it worked, for not a Nazi...
...woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed by, saw the snake, snatched up his child with one sweep, killed the snake with another...
...full speed out from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters of a mile away...
...headlong sweep of Christianity from its founding down to the present day was depicted in a cunning mosaic of statistics last week in the American Lutheran by Dr. George Linn Kieffer. A scholarly, bespectacled Lutheran who is president of the Association of Religious Statisticians of America and author of an annual church membership survey for the Christian Herald, Dr. Kieffer pieced together censuses and researches as follows...