Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morality and low lust. Miller has written a novel that is good because it isolates and preserves for time ahead the tenor and taste of a certain significant period's play on some significant people. It verges toward the second-rate when it tackles large issues and attempts a sweep of which it is apparently incapable...
...couple of hours earlier, jumped the Elis out to a full five second lead on the first leg, but then Verdued took over and on the butterfly leg pulled to within a foot of Yale's Joe Seldon. By this time, the jammed house, weary from watching Yale sweep to three firsts and a second in the first four events on the card, was yelling for LaSalle. Jack Lumsden, LaSalle freestyler, finally nailed Don Irwin in the final three yards and won by about half a foot...
...terms of Siraus Trophy competition the Mastodons of Eliot stacked up enough points to carry off the winter championship. The win in hockey, fourth place in the basketball, and a clean sweep for both A and B squash teams, gave them a big bulge over the opponents...
...narrator and star. In his nine other regular radio and television jobs, he ran the gamut between straight man and U.N. analyst. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby has said with some amazement that Grauer "does everything but sweep out the studio...
Yale made a clean sweep of Saturday's freshman sports fare as the Elis made off with victories over the Crimson swimming, fencing, hockey, and basketball teams. It was the swordsmen's first defeat of the season...