Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
Though a blasting wind swept across the field and the men were drenched to the skin after the first 45 minutes of play--there being two halfs of 45 minutes each--the men simply wandered about the field during intermission. There were no rubdowns, there was no hot broth: for no quarters or dressing rooms were then in use. Until 1881 there was no medical supervisor nor any physical trainer. That year also witnessed the coming to Harvard of its first football coach, yet systematic coaching was not instituted until Captain W.A. Brooks '87 appointed F.A. Mason '84 coach...
...then all eyes were turned to the start of play at the kickoff. Four or five minutes after the first whistle Harvard made a substitution, and to the amazement of all, the substitute was Gehrke himself. The team pulled together and for a wild first half swept the much more powerful Eli outfit off its feet, the half ending 6 to 0. In the second half Yale showed its strength and took the game...
...electorate, disgruntled, has clearly been swept to the support of Sir Richard Squires by his clever "dollars and cents" campaign. It is difficult to imagine how George V can now avoid calling him to the Prime Ministry. True he was charged by the Crown Prosecutor in 1923 with malfeasance and accepting funds from private corporations; but a Newfoundland grand jury found "no bill," and the nasty charges blew over. Triumphantly last week Sir Richard counted up 28 seats for his party, against the Government's 12 in a Parliament of 40. Gallant, the man with the Hoover-tipped collar...
...most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such...