Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plebes broke the two-mile course record by more than half a minute. The Navy junior varsity missed the three-mile varsity record by only 6.3 seconds. Then it was up to the varsity, stroked by lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 178 lbs.) Sophomore Ed Stevens, to duplicate the "sweep of the river" achieved only by the West Coast's perennial powerhouse, Washington...
While alumni sweep the town, revisiting old friends and again taking note of old landmarks, the CRIMSON wishes to extend a cordial invitation to all past Crimeds and their families to reenter the red doors on Plympton street and relive their past triumphs...
Citation: "Citizen of a land known of old, newly reborn in our own day as a sovereign state, product of its schools and of the American University in Beirut . . . trained in mathematics, physics and philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia...
...saucer sightings (see diagram). The warm air overhead turns downward the light from bright objects, such as street lights or auto headlamps. If the "interface" is too turbulent, it can form no visible image, but if it is just steady enough, it will create bright images that seem to sweep rapidly across the dark sky. This is the explanation, says Menzel, for the famous "Lubbock Lights,"* which have been taken for interplanetary space ships flying in formation. They may be the images of a string of lights at a distance, or they may be reduplicated images of a single very...
...Zhoon-yea) is an artist with a fresh eye who feels confined by frames and flat surfaces. For ten years he has tried to get a sense of volume into his paintings by rejecting the conventional canvas for molded shapes of wood and plaster. His paintings (TIME, July 9) sweep around curves, roll wavelike along walls. Last week Artist Junyer's latest assault on convention was on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...