Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary event the Harvard second 150-pounds scored an easy one-length triumph over the Kent seconds. The winners swept into an early lead which they maintained despite Kent's final spurt. The race was five second slower than the following...
These contentions the Supreme Court swept aside as without merit...
...rapid glance showed General de la Vega that the 24 Ibs. of dynamite would explode in just three minutes. Pouncing, he seized the ticking bomb, swept past his expostulating orderly, dumped the dynamite into the nearest horse trough...
...Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
...inspections and then suddenly transforming themselves into policemen to arrest Cincinnati's evildoers thus detected. Oldtime politicians who deplore the lack of politics in Cincinnati's form of government charged that the new system would reduce the efficiency of the fire department, predicted that Cincinnati might be swept away in an avenging holocaust...