Word: swooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downtown building in Springfield had become infested with thousands of sparrows. One afternoon someone noticed the two hawks hovering over the spot, stopped to watch them swoop and kill. Next afternoon the hawks came to hunt again. More people stopped to watch. Before long three traffic policemen were needed to handle the hundreds who gathered daily to watch the aerial raids. Because the hawks always came at about 5:15 p. m. a merchant got the idea of starting a daily pool based on the fractional minute of the birds' appearance. Soon everyone from Mayor J. W. Kapp...
...that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...
...went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...
...This is a move which is being slowly made, and which will not be completed until sufficient money and capable men are both available; for there will always be those of us who question the "educational advance" of adding fifteen or twenty men to a faculty at one fell swoop...
...part of the dedication of the squash courts in the new Paine Whitney Memorial Gymnasium. Coach Cowles also plans to enter a team picked from the varsity squad in the National Championships, to be held at Baltimore on February 11, 12, 13. Last year's team scored a clean swoop in the Nationals for the first time since '1925, with Beekman Pool '32 winning the National Singles Championship. The Harvard racquet men also won the Intercollegiates last year...