Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the East a bitter wind bearing snowflakes bigger than bullets swept over the land of the Czechs and Slovaks last week. From the West came Hitler...
...Tobacco War, which swept the tobacco land of Kentucky in 1905, was a strange, remote, bitter fight. It started when farmers' hatred of the newly organized Tobacco Trust exploded: warehouses were burned, an unknown number of barns destroyed, hundreds of tobacco farmers were arrested for arson, murder, conspiracy; martial law shut down...
Hungary has enjoyed an artistic and musical rebirth resulting from the wave of nationalism which swept her after the war, Dr. laszle Telkes, director of the Hungarian Reference Library, New York, said yesterday in a lecture on "A Thousand Years of Hungarian Culture" in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Prior to this week work-outs in Commonwealth Armory have been very spotty because of a wave of illness that swept through the lineup. Gay Dillingham, pivot man and individual star of the team, has spent most of the time since the game with Yale at Chicago in the infirmary...
...Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites...