Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there are no more available openings for oarsmen, the crew coach emphasized the need for small men to act as coxwains. He pointed out that acting as the "slavedriver" of a husky bunch of sweep devotees was perhaps the only way for small men to win their...
...Government transported them down from Maine, where they had been occupied by war workers, erected them, and left the Harvard Housing Bureau on its own. The University handles all the repair and necessary maintenance, pays the light bills and tampers with the plumbing. The students have only to sweep the steps and water the lawn. The veterans' opinion of the Court was summed up by a family man who had served overseas as a colonel with the Army of the United States. "Good deal," he said...
Three undergraduates of the University made a clean sweep of the Cambridge Centennial Prize Essay contest by winning all three prizes in the college class of entries, it was announced this week by the Centennial Committee. Francis H. George '41, of Cambridge, won the first prize of $200; William E. Reeves '46, of Providence, Rhode Island, came in second and received $150; while Alexander D. Stewart '49, also of Cambridge, took the $50 third prize...
...reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis...
...club's record for the season is six wins against seven losses so that a clean sweep over the weekend will finish the team over the 500 mark...