Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 2,000 men and 200 ships (the number asked) last week answered the British Admiralty's call for volunteers to sweep mines, which in a fortnight sank 27 ships off England's coasts. A British mine-laying force went out to sow a new field between the Thames River and the mouth of the River Scheldt on Belgium's coast, to bottle Germany's submarine mine layers farther up into the North Sea. French patrols safely brought in some convoys of merchantmen carrying war supplies from the U. S.; France announced sinking seven...
...last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work...
...career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...inoculated with the virus of self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Up-to-date recording technique makes Composer Strauss's autobiographical "Life of a Hero" scintillate. But Conductor Ormandy's interpretation has not quite the sweep of the performance recorded in 1928 by irascible Willem Mengelberg, to whom the autobiography was dedicated...