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Word: sweep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turning back toward a more serious interest in the curriculum proper and away from the extra-curriculum activities in recent years would be a fascinating and enlightening subject for careful study. For the moment it does not matter. The swing is actually going on. In its broad sweep it was discussed and approved by Professor Lovett. Quite happily Professor Edgell has placed the Reading Period Plan in its proper relationshiup with the general tendency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LEADS | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

...fellows can make beds?" "Yes." "You can sweep floors?" "Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Kent School | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled audience reserved applause for minor singers. An indignant press flayed the impertinence of the rebellious foreigner, Feodor Chaliapin. An exhausted conductor said that for Basso Chaliapin, he would conduct no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conductor Chaliapin | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Crimson possibility in either second or third. The javelin throw offers the most uncertain prospect of the afternoon. It has been forecast that this event will end in an S to 1 victory for Harvard, and the same has also been prophesied for Yale. Any score except a clean sweep is perfectly credible in this event since the four leading contestants. Dean and Davidson of Yale, and Moore and Pratt of Harvard, have all made losses of over 18O feet and it is impossible to say which of them will come closest to his best effort in this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Runners Seek to Break Series of Eli Track Triumphs | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

...thousand persons were present at the performances, and, in spite of the fact that only a comparatively small number of people in the audiences could understand Greek, their interest was caught and held by the relentless sweep of the tragedy of the unhappy king. There were so many students who desired to see the play, but who were unable to get tickets, that the committee in charge allowed them to attend the dress rehearsal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oedipus and Jocasta Drew Customers at $25 a Head Not So Long Ago--Sophocles Scored Smash in Cambridge of 1881 | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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