Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley Theatre is currently presenting 100 unidentified actors in "Created Equal," a 27-scene object lesson which uses the entire sweep of American history to put across its democratic moral. It is a Federal Theatre Project show, ably presented; those who like their stuff will enjoy this. Republicans had better go to the movies...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...York the visitors turned the day into a complete sweep when the Jayvees led the Lions by two and a half lengths in 7:51. Both races were over the mile and three-quarter distance...
...present, the democracies are strongly pacifistic. They have not always been so. If pressed too far a wave of indignation might sweep over them that would make it extremely difficult to keep the peace. It is essential that continued aggression stop before things get out of hand...
...doubles matches the Yearlings scored a complete sweep, with Lyell and Dick, Peabody and Earle, and Paul Faden and Ronald Kahn on the courts...