Word: swept
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...recognized that every comet has not one but two tails, not always visually distinct, both extending millions of miles by the time the comet has moved close to the sun. They now know that the yellowish, often curved tail is composed of dust particles released during sublimation and swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react with the solar...
Harvard's number one seed, Edge swept through a draw composed of the nation's top 16 players without losing a game...
Last night, in the newly renovated Indoor Athletic Building (IAB), the undefeated Harvard men's fencing squad swept to its sixth victory of the year, an exhilarating 15-12 upset of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's premiere teams...
Dean Marquand offered a more practical rationalization. Said he, "It was [the council's view] that if they dropped [the reports] at doors, they would be picked up and swept away." Yet anyone who knows anything about doordrops also knows that they are an effective and cost-effective means of distribution on campus. Besides, who on earth would want to collect a pile of wordy reports from campus doorsteps in the early morning...
...chief executive officer (1968-72) of the Boeing Co.; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; at his home in Seattle. Allen led Boeing's post-World War II re-entry into the commercial market. Perhaps his greatest coup was staking $16 million on the construction of a swept-wing prototype for a commercial jet, which later evolved into the Boeing...