Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the threat of the Dartmouth game hovering over it Harvard's University squad swept through its shortest workout of the season on Soldiers Field yesterday. The team displayed more dash and spirit than it has shown all week in the workout which lasted only 50 minutes...
...World War disrupted the Military Academy more seriously than any previous event in its history. The frenzied preparation that followed our entry swept aside all precedent. The Class of 1917 graduated two months ahead of time, 1918 graduated in August 1917, and 1919, 1920, and 1921 received their commissions in 1918. An unparalleled crisis in the history of West Point was experienced at this time. On November 2, 1918 the fourth Class, which had been at the Academy less than five months, was all that remained of the Corps...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...
Last week, as it must from time to time, the Keith vaudeville circuit cleaned its houses. From orchestras and balconies were swept gum wrappers, cigaret butts, hairpins, miscellaneous and refuse. From stages were swept all manner of objectionable "gags" and "business." In other words, a Keith bureau whose duty it is to keep Keith shows moral-reverent-safe sent out a censorship manifesto prohibiting certain remarks and actions made by Keith vaudevillians. These were listed in Variety, slangy theatrical trade weekly. Sample "gags" prohibited...
...under the new systems while equally important to bankers is the new personal element. Once a conservative banker could be expected to remain with his institution for years. Now bankers at the convention could scarcely remember whether friends were with the same bank, or whether that bank had been swept away into some merger or whether control of it had passed to some holding corporation and its staff reorganized...