Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first knowledge of rowing from Coach Love, and such a large proportion of "inexperienced" men is quite out of the ordinary. Clark, Stone, and Potter all came from Milton, where crew is unknown, and Merwin matriculated from Scarsdale High to Harvard, where he gained his first experience with a sweep...
Lieut. Bulkeley made stiff little speeches for the press and the newsreels: "He [General MacArthur] believes that with a couple of hundred of them [PTs] we could sweep the Japanese from the sea...The Japanese are very brave, pugnacious fighters. . . . We feel the Navy is trying to do a good job in the Far East...
...crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness and only...
...intervals until all the group of plays were available and could be rotated in performance from week to week. The plays selected would cover a wide range, from popular Kaufman-Hart comedies to the more serious landmarks in stage history, bringing to the audience in one season a broad sweep of theatrical progress...
...Elis were put more completely behind the eight-ball with Wes Flint's spectacular double win in the two hurdle events, and the Grimson sweep of the shot. In fact, the Elis have fallen a long way from the days of Ernis Parshall, former Hill School athlete, who chalked up six first and a second for Yale in a Freshman meet...