Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...messages, calls for rescue boats, Red Cross communications for medicine, food, doctors and nurses; orders from local undertakers for coffins; advice to boil water; warnings to looters; instructions to rescue pilots; news details of the hurricane that killed 136 people in the Westerly and nearby beach areas before it swept on up through New England...
...found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point, is a brazen conglomeration of bright colors and an embodiment of a cynical and completely unsympathetic point of view. If all aesthetic standards, sensitive taste, and a feeling for harmony were suddenly swept from the world, Nolde's painting, even then, would have difficulty in maintaining its position as a work...
...next three matches, however, were swept by the visitors, with Walt Muther, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart going down to defeat in straight set affairs. The Crimson due of Burt and Gilkey came through in two sets, 6-3; 6-4 over the number one Tarheel combination, but Palfrey and Muther lost. Art Brooks and George Goodwin dropped the other doubles bout...
They were the years in which German steel production approached its pre-War level; Germany's merchant marine climbed from 400,000 to 3,700,000 tons. They were the years in which France stabilized her currency, recovering from the post-Ruhr crisis that swept six ministries out of office in 15 months. They were the years when Edward, Prince of Wales, was known as the Empire's greatest salesman. And though England was laboring with an unemployment problem and China was torn by internal revolt, advocates of international cooperation flourished in the capitals of Europe as trade...