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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...offensive centers around reverse and fake reverse plays, most of which go around the long end of the line, with an occasional reverse play around the short end, usually unsuccessful. Most effective of the plays is the one that sends Booth around the right side on a long end sweep with practically the whole Eli team interfering for him. Although the Blue line does not click with the precision characteristic of Dartmouth's forward wall it is strong enough to allow Booth to get away successfully more often than is comfortable for the opposition. TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile stock-traders. Though few Wall streeters have ever read Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandcs, it was easy for them to imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Shadow of Panic | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many a thrill, many a laugh, nary a tear, Life's panorama sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Preeminent will be the Beethoven Seventh symphony in A major which exemplifies much of the Bonn master's power of orchestration. While it does not contain the majestic sweep of the Fifth or the magnitude of the Ninth it does carry the unmistakable seal of his genius for contrast, counter-point, and imitation...

Author: By C. E., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/16/1930 | See Source »

...Hollywood saw wide film applied for the first time to a lusty outdoor theme. Snowstorms, deserts, mountains, prairies loomed up bigger and better than ever. Shots of plunging, thundering animals often took on the composition of good painting and the vigor of fine sculpture. Beauty was mingled cunningly with sweep and strength. Mass found its medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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