Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely tootled a Red Air Force ditty, Higher and Higher, which no Nazi was likely to recognize. As the Germans swept away in limousines at 6 p. m. the honor guard and band withdrew. Neither was left to greet the Estonian delegation of enforced capitulators who alighted a few minutes later at the same Moscow air field...
Mount Holyoke's Roswell Gray Ham: "We should not be swept away...
Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Loverett continue to clothe their waitresses in black. Miss Murray, perennial guardian of the Union's gates, has also refused to allow herself to be swept away by a splash of color...
...motor divisions of the Army. In 1937 Germany had only two such divisions. By September 1 of this year she had six, each with an average strength of 13,000 men, besides a fleet of 8,000 tanks capable of going 18-20 m.p.h. It was this force that swept through Poland with such devastating fury...
...loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf and his wife mounted his tiny 35 mm. color pictures between glass slides...