At an exhibition of antique travel accessories at the RISD Museum at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, I realized that I would never have cut much of a swath as a 19th-century traveler.
Mimi Weddell, who starting in her mid-60s breezily cut a swath as a model, actress and style setter and whose flamboyant headwear figured prominently in "Hats Off," a 2008 documentary about her life, died at her home in Manhattan on Sept. 24.
Group members confirm that the camera, which can take in a swath as wide as the Big Dipper's bucket in a single image, has been successfully mated to the 2.5-meter Sloan Telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, and has made its first images of the night sky.
Looming up as high as 50 feet and covering swaths as wide as a quarter mile, it had created its own jumbled topography, with plains, ravines, craters and hillocks.
For years, the swath sat as a forlorn symbol of decline.
Laying the triticale in as wide of a swath as possible when cutting will increase the drying speed for the first 3-4 hours.
Offstage, Mr. Cutler cut a wide swath as well, inciting headlines with his romantic exploits and, in 1938, by narrowly escaping with his life after plunging his car into the East River.
Separated from its supply bases and completely isolated from other Union forces, Sherman's army cut a wide swath as it moved south through Georgia, living off the countryside, destroying railroads and supplies, reducing the war-making potential of the Confederacy, and bringing the war home to the Southern people.
Brian Nguyen cuts a wide swath as the military leader General Genghis Khan Schmitz, while also doing cameo duty as the Christmas-stealing Grinch and Yertle the Turtle, who turns up as the judge in Horton's "trial". The familiar "Green Eggs and Ham" rhyme is used as Schmitz's military cadence chant.
What about the Philippines' dubious "picture frame" claims over a vast rectangular swath in the South China Sea as its "archipelago waters" and its controversial insistence of treating this swath as its "internal waters" -- thus explicitly repudiating any freedom of passage, including freedom of "innocent passage, through this vast area?
For most investors a smarter strategy would be to own a diverse swath of assets as cheaply as possible.
