Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hegira. Even if men and materials were to be had, the problem of distributing them was next to insoluble. For every road in the area was choked with refugees, not only a half million that had left Barcelona, but thousands more that the advancing Rebels swept before them. It was one of history's greatest and most tragic hegiras. From heights on the French frontier as far as eye could see a steady river of humanity slowly rolled toward the border...
...skylit little courtyard gallery on West 13th Street, Manhattan, gathered last week more artistic large fry than you could shake a palette-knife at. Her greying hair done high and sculptural, Hostess Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery swept busily from guest to guest: gentle Alfred Barr Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art; frosty-headed "Grouch" Goodyear, the museum's president; Mrs. Juliana Force, redoubtable director of the Whitney Museum; sunny Holger Cahill, director of the Federal Art Project; big, Indian-looking Artist Eugene Speicher, burly, blue-eyed Reginald Marsh, bright-eyed, skimpy-chinned Peggy Bacon...
Other new broom Republican Governors who last week swept with varying degrees of cleanness...
...path of the hurricane that swept New England last fall were, among other things, several State teachers' colleges of which Mr. Reardon has charge. To repair the damage to them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids...