Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to fly safely at the low (150-160 m.p.h.) speeds of landing and takeoff. As the engineers continued to study supersonics, they learned to 1) keep the wings as thin as possible in relation to width, 2) keep the wing span small in relation to width and 3) sweep the wings back sharply as they stretch away from the fuselage. These tricks of design, they discovered, add up to a wing like an arrowhead or a schoolboy's paper dart...
...other two teammates stood at mid-ice, brooms in hand, ready to "soop" (sweep) away any real or imagined particles of dirt or ice that might impede the progress of Van Epp's stone...
...Crimson "B" squash team made a clean sweep of its match with the University Club, gaining a 5 to 0 win yesterday. Wister Wood won the number one match in five games. Charles Eliot, Mike Wood, Larry Brownell, and Ted Rose added the other wins...
Josephine Hull in Clean Sweep for Lavinia...
...typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...