Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule prevails, upset everything by voting back the Federal pay cuts and practically all the pension cuts. The House on a second go-round restored two-thirds of the Federal pay cut, and 75% of their former pensions to "presumptives." The bill as passed did not quite wipe out the savings of the 1933 Economy Act, but it did wipe out the principle of executive control of pensions and salaries...
During the entire performance, which lasted an hour and a half, the 67-year-old conductor never left the stage, paused only once to wipe the perspiration from his face, fan himself with his handkerchief. At the end he was exhausted but he could not complain of the box office receipts as Beethoven had done after the Vienna premiere...
...England and Wales. This move comes as a result of long consideration and represents the only effective solution to the problem. The American government has realized that crime, vice, and disease can be combatted only by concerted action. This logic must and eventually will be extended to wipe out the slum, insidious breeder of these evils. TERTIUS...
...past several weeks the newspapers have been filled with the aggressive speeches of Soviet leaders all asserting that Russia is more than ready for any Japanese attack, that, in fact, the Soviet armies will wipe up Manchuria with the Japs and throw their mangled remains into the sea; in addition to this, the Russians have given out specific estimates of the number of troops and airplanes which they have in the Far East, thus violating that essential point of military strategy, secrecy. All this bellicose public shouting by the Kremlin tough boys shows, I think, a certain pathological state...
...What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad. So fixed that he can "wipe out" the broker husband at will, the peasant-tycoon takes command of the situation and the daughter has a brilliant Metropolitan debut...