Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eclipse. All through the northeastern portion of the U. S. and Canada the sun will be partly eclipsed by the disk of the moon early on that morning. The area of complete eclipse?the area where the complete shadow of the moon will sweep over the East?brings in Minnesota at sunrise, thence moving southeastward in a gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan...
...noteworthy facts about the results: 1) that although 1924 was a three-sided contest resembling in that respect 1912, it was decided, unlike 1912, not chiefly by pluralities, but mostly by absolute majorities, large majorities; 2) that although there was a Presidential landslide in 1924, it failed to sweep in the customary large party majorities in the Senate, in the House and in state governments. From the standpoint of the voter, it signifies that many "split-ticket" ballots were cast and that the split-ticket vote largely determined the election. From the standpoint of candidates it means Coolidge...
...Donahey, however, though not so well advertised, performed a feat as great. As he did in 1922, so did he again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio...
...winds of protest, from faculty, alumni, students, that had beaten for a fortnight upon Yale's new dormitory, abuilding by order of the Yale Corporation next Connecticut Hall (TiME, Nov. 3), last week proved sufficiently violent to drive the workmen from the site and sweep the Corporation into renewed conference. The Committee on Architectural Plans was to meet with, hear the views of, other elements of the college. Meantime, building was suspended. The new dormitory, dubbed by the Yale Daily News "Hush Hall," because of the "secrecy" attending its advent, was anathema because it was to copy and stand...
...persons who insist that war has become entirely a matter of high-powered guns, cannon fodder, and casualties will be thoroughly discomfited by the reports from Morocco. There the dashingly romantic absurdities of uncommercialized combat are being reacted; prisoners are ransomed with Spanish gold; fiery sheiks of the desert sweep across the lonely sands with Damascan blades flashing in the sunlight...