Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the body of Senator LaFollette, leader of the Republican Insurgents in the Senate, was carried to his grave in Wisconsin, Senator Edwin Fremont Ladd, one of the pillars of the insurgent group, died in the city of Baltimore. With hardly more than one sweep of his famed scythe, Death had taken two of the leaders of the radical group...
...well as one of the shortest, sessions was over. Almost unanimously, the Chamber adopted a bill to regulate the press and another to empower the Government to issue decree laws until Parliament reassembled in the Fall. Premier Mussolini announced that he would not take a vacation; and, with a sweep of his arm, the proceedings came...
...Vadunt? Is the present sporadic outburst of nationalism going to sweep all China into a ferment against the foreigners? Or is it going to die down to flare up again in the future? It is unlikely, if not impossible, for the Chinese to undertake any concerted action against the foreigners. This is because the Chinese are themselves too much divided. But it is almost a certainty that nationalism as a force will live to show its talons another day and there can be no doubt that some time the nationalists will...
...fighting in Morocco is taking place on a sweep of territory with effectives far inferior to those at our disposal during the Great War. Therefore, we are compelled to make use of modern armaments, keeping always in mind the difficulties of transportation...
...University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) celebrated its 130th anniversary, was informed by Glenn Frank, President-elect of the University of Wisconsin: "The educational world is caught in the sweep of a Safety first' movement. . . . It may be that the most serious need of the human race just now is comic relief...