Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
...wingback George Sella, who would hand-off to tailback Dick Kazmaier, who in turn knifed off tackle for about five yards at a clip. If the Rutgers secondary pulled in close to meet this play, Caldwell set a flanker to the left and sent Sella on an end sweep--one which clicked for 65 yards and the tie-breaking touchdown...
...Bros, department store, in Houston, was the first department store designed so that a shopper could walk through the store making purchases, and have them all waiting for her when she returned to her car in the store garage. Though Loewy's work does not have the imaginative sweep of Designer Bel Geddes' visions of triple-decked planes, rotary airports and submarinelike ocean liners, he has a greater influence on current design and modern living than any other designer simply because his pen is in so many different inkpots...
...augmented his permanent staff in the Studebaker plant from 28 to 39, talked each design over with engineers to see if it was feasible. From hundreds of tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...
...basic pattern, the right halfback plunges into the center of the line, the fullback and the left half sweep wide to the left, and the T quarterback runs almost straight back for seven or eight yards...