Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sextant. If the day is cloudy, they cannot see the sun, although they may know its approximate location. The MacNeil sextant is connected with an amplifier sensitive to the sun's infra-red rays. Those rays go through clouds. All an uncertain navigator need do is to sweep the sun-obscuring cloud with the eyepiece of this special sextant until the amplifier gives the greatest response to the sun's invisible presence...
September is here--and thousands of sport writers breathe a sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
...shattered yesterday when N. M. Goodhue '35 led a field of 32 entrants to finish first against the Holy Cross Freshmen as the Crimson first year men triumphed 23 to 46. At the same time the University team, led by Captain N. P. Hallowell, Jr. '32, made a clean sweep of the first six places to win from the Crusaders...
...away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken the field, sweep into Havana in triumph. There was some traitor in the club. The Coral was scarcely free of the pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore to sidetrack the pursuers. They were promptly arrested and clapped...
...helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener's farm near Lexington, Ky.; the 1931 Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play, Sweep All) with fictitious ones (Tommy Boy, Bar Sinister), help make the atmosphere of Sporting Blood less spurious than is customary. So does the performance of Clark Gable, who impersonates the young gambler with that air of reckless, good-humored depravity which has made him an overnight favorite among female cinemaddicts...