Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far the resolve holds sway over the hatred. But let the Allies begin to lose ground. Let the French millions dash themselves to pieces on the Westwall and the German juggernant begin to roll. Then will a huge wave of propaganda sweep over the nation, rivalled only by a new wave of natural sympathy for the Allied cause. The result will be a sea of passion almost impossible to contain. Then will the resolve crumble and the hatred arise. And then America...
When it comes, men on the ground and men in the air will work together in the tactical teams that both sides have trained to develop. While artillery is preparing for the advance of infantry, low-flying attack ships will sweep from their airdromes in great flights to batter relieving troops with machine-gun fire, bomb supply trains in the rear areas...
Last week, U. S. grocers had the surprise of their business careers. One morning before they had had time to sweep out the stores, sugar was going out the front doors in 100-pound orders. Customers who for years had bought from day to day and trundled purchases away in baby's perambulator carted away canned goods by the case, flour by the 50 lb. sack. The squirrel instinct was at work. With a strange reversion to the memories of World War I, U. S. housewives were building up hoards against a winter which they thought would bring high...
...carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...
Prospects for the coming year are best in rowing. Only stroke Bill Rowe and Captain Dudley Talbot, workhorse number three sweep-swinger, will be lost from the eight which defeated Yale. The six returning oarsmen and coxswain; plus the wealth of material from the freshman and junior varsity squad, give a basis for optimism. This is the Olympic year in rowing, and Bolles and the oarsmen would like nothing better than to have the Crimson colors carried abroad