Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give...
...Cadets began the contest with a furious rush which swept them into a commanding lead. Headed by the brilliant passing and shooting of Strother, who alone accounted for 14 of his team's points, the soldiers peppered the visitor's basket to gain an early margin which Harvard was not able to overcome...
...goals in an overtime period spelled defeat last night for the Harvard hockey team when a hitherto un-hailed Boston Athletic Association sextet swept to a 6 to 4 victory in the Boston Arena. Lawless and Hardy rode on the crest of the wave that Channing Hilliard, brilliant B. A. A. wingman, set into motion when he made two unassisted goals in as many minutes early in the third period. The startling upset of the Crimson puckmen was wholly unexpected because of the comparatively easy 5 to 1 victory they achieved in a contest on January...
When the fire swept the Steel Car plant, twisting the rails of its three parallel tracks, gutting the beautiful "City of St. Joseph," melting its window panes to puddles but leaving its huge cylindrical body an eloquent testimonial to the man who first tried with all his might to realize the life-saving possibilities of steel cars, that man still fought on, though in failing health; but he had hardly given up the hope of rebuilding his plant before a little French doctor, who had attended his wife in New England, recommended a diet of thoroughly cooked whole wheat...
...Marriage Bed is Ernest Pascal's dramatization of his novel, which attracted by it? By its clinical title, and was swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine...