Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night's performance by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was a careful, finished production which lacked the sweep necessary for this work, but which made up for this by a nearly letter-perfect dependability. The chorus supplied its usual polished tone and disciplined ensemble. The main surprise came from the string section of the orchestra, which finally broke down, in the Agnus Dei, and sang, highlighting a performance which was unusual for its clarity and accuracy. In one superb but all too short phrase, the Orchestra demonstrated that it knows...
...disaster which began three years ago with Bishop Theas' approval of costly plans for a new underground basilica in Lourdes. To pay for the $2,800,000 structure, the bishop borrowed from bankers against future donations from pilgrims. But no sooner was ground broken than floods threatened to sweep away the foundations; the cost of repairs doubled the final estimate to some $5,600,000. With half the original funds already spent, Théas again applied to the bankers, but was turned down...
...pattern of division was enough to make a Communist exult. Said Red Leader Anibal Escalante: "The dynamic forces of the revolution will sweep away conservatives like Miró Cardona...
...Scary." Times have changed since the days when C.K. helped sweep California government free of railroad domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans...
...minimum get 10? an hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing Co. to Avondale Mills in Alabama announced that they too were raising wages. By week's end pay raises had been promised to 100,000 textile workers, and textilemen predicted increases would sweep the entire industry by summer...