Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, March 20--The possibility looms large that Yale's great swimming team, considered in many quarters to be the strongest ever to represent one institution, may sweep every one of the 11 titles which will be at stake today and tomorrow in the fifth annual invitation Championships conducted by the Eastern Intercollegiate League. Appropriately enough, they will take place in the Payne Whitney Pool at New Haven...
...himself. Just at present he is churning up the chlorinated waters of the swimming pool, but after this weekend he will enter the rowing scene, probably with a good deal of pain, since a winter's work swimming leaves hands in no condition for hard pulling on a sweep...
About half a dozen Sophomores have shown signs of promise in addition to Noyes. Jim Donald's rise has been spectacular. Coming to Harvard from Dallas, Texas, he never saw a sweep until Freshman year. Now that the power of which he has always had plenty has been blended with smoothness, it looks as if he might go places which his position on the second Freshman eight did not indicate...
...bacterial warfare, their choice of bubonic plague was not smart. Changteh is little more than a hundred miles from Japanese lines, and the disease travels as fast today as when it ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. If warm weather brought an epidemic to Changteh, the disease might sweep to the Japanese...
Around G-2 headquarters today there is a feeling that General Lee will sweep away a lot of cobwebs...