Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the Senate is holding up in a most disgraceful manner the world's only chance for a permanent peace based on international justice. It is not only the privilege, but the duty of those people to make their will felt. A petition of "absolute faith" would tend to sweep away the very foundations of Democracy...
...floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will...
Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition. To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care whole-heartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting...
Eliot Crews won all but one of their races in yesterday's continuation of the regatta. Thayer 2 won from Eliot 2, but with that exception the Eliot Club eight made a clean sweep of the river. The most important of yesterday's races was that between the first Eliot and Thayer crews in which Eliot 1 led their opponents by a margin of one-half of a length...
...championship of the river" for their respective type of shell is no mean thing. Beyond the Locker Room at Newell these races may be regarded as wasted energy. More gifted roommates may have found it difficult to understand the "training" for such events. But to the man with the sweep the crowds on Harvard Bridge will be there to see his race, even though railway construction in reality accounts for the uninterested onlookers...