Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armada was to circle east and north over Connecticut, over Ossining, N. Y. sweep down the Hudson River (so that in case of accident no plane would fall in the city), dogfight over lower Manhattan, then proceed to dedicate the new Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...
Going past the stand, Boys Howdy and Prince D'Amour were in front, Ladder, Sweep All and The Mongol bunched behind. Ladder took the lead at the half-mile. In the back stretch, with the jockeys' backs profiled above the rail like mechanical rabbits, Sweep All moved up and passed Ladder. Twenty Grand saved his speed for the last half-mile. George Ellis who had brought a Negro jockey all the way from Baltimore so he could rub his head for luck, was up on Mate. He and Kurtsinger drew their whips at the same time coming into...
With Mikkola's athletes responding in surprising fashion to the challenge of much-touted Dartmouth performers in the field events, and the middle distance and distance runners scoring a clean sweep, the Crimson track forces gained a decisive 78 to 57 victory in the Stadium Saturday afternoon over the Big Green in a meet replete with record-breaking performances...
Harvard v. Kent, No preparatory school in the U. S. does so well at rowing as Kent, where the boys have to sweep out the school buildings and make their beds before rowing practice, and where the rowing coach wears a skirt. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, Kent Headmaster, is the rowing coach; he wears his skirt because he is a member of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, March 23). Every year his first and second crews start their season with a race against the first and second Harvard 150-lb. shells. Last week Father Sill...