Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make the situation worse, the gas lights in the halls are extinguished at 12 o'clock, leaving the halls and stairs in inky darkness. The stairways in Matthews and Weld are so arranged, with the sky-light directly above them, that a fire once started would have a full sweep from the ground floor to the top, and would cut off the inmates from this means of exit...
...Sweep down the field again...
...Sweep down the field again...
...responsible for two of the five intercollegiate records broken, one a world record. If the Ithacans had won no other championship but this they would still have fame enough left for one year, but in addition to winning the honors on track and field the Ithacans made a clean sweep of the rowing championship. Not only did Coach Courtney's men defeat Harvard, Yale and Princeton in two different regattas, but at Pough-keepsie they won the most thrilling race in years by defeating Columbia in the last one hundred yards. Only once during the year did a Cornell crew...
...Yale tennis team made a clean sweep in its matches with the Harvard team at Longwood yesterday, the University players failing to win any of the six matches in singles or the three in doubles. Practically all of the matches in singles were closely contested and three of them went to three sets. Fraser-Campbell made the best showing for Harvard, and Holden of Yale played in very clever fashion...