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Word: swooping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting that for the first five days 81% more cars were sold than at last year's show, and Hudson, proud to say that during the first day it sold 300% more cars than during the entire 1931 Show. Aiding Hudson was a unique publicity stunt. At one swoop 1,207.500 telegrams were sent to persons owning Hudsons and Essexes or cars in similar ranges, urging them to visit the Hudson showrooms. The telegraphing was done by a special arrangement with Postal Telegraph-Cable, a master telegram being sent to about 700 cities, copied there for local distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Royal Family Pleased | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

HARVARD YALE Finlay, No. 1 No. 1, Aycock Eaton, No. 2 No. 2, Wilson Arnold, No. 3 No. 3, Noyes Murphy, No. 4 No. 4, Swoop Baldwin, No. 5 No. 5, Menvin Kimbrough, No. 6 No. 6, Reese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN AND MINOR SPORTS | 5/23/1931 | See Source »

...once a common sight. They have been exterminated partly because of their proclivity for occasionally preying upon livestock, but mostly in the course of man's attempt to rid himself of wolves and foxes. These animals have learned to avoid poisoned meat, but the condors, eaters of carrion, swoop and gobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rare Egg | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Eagle. In Buffalo Valley, Perry County, Pa., farmers reported seeing an airplane come over the mountains, a bald eagle swoop savagely at it, fall decapitated to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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