Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson entered the day one game up on the Big Red thanks to a nifty, come-from-behind, 2-1 victory over Cornell's illustrious ace, Greg Myers Friday afternoon. Assuming Myers' mates would sweep Dartmouth (they did), Harvard needed at least a split to guarantee itself a tie for the crown...
...list of Crimson victors in the meet reads something like a Homeric catalogue of the conquerors at Troy. The thinclads made a clean sweep in the field events, suffering a lone casualty in the high jump...
...race is so tight a five way tie is a real--if unlikely--possibility. But the Harvard baseball team has the power to change the complicated mess into a simple, sweet celebration: a win over Cornell this afternoon and a sweep of Army tomorrow will give the Crimson the Eastern League title...
...four-and five-way ties. If either or both finish the year at 10-4, Yale (9-4) will lay a previously rained-out game against Penn (7-4) for a possible three-way tie. If Penn wins, it will then play a rained-out doubleheader at Dartmouth; a sweep there will tie Harvard and Cornell. If no team finishes better than 9-5, Navy (9-5)--which has already completed its season--will also be tied for first. Yale will then play Penn, which will meet Dartmouth Monday. If the Quakers beat the Eli's and then split...
...placement in the continuum of broader history. It invites and aspires to comparisons with the great novels of literary history. The lines and intersections of characters' lives are set within the dislocating phases of world events. All is understood in the perspective of the slowwheeling geometry of time's sweep. Hazzard handles her saga about the lonely remnants of several families with a stylish cinematic control that gives us a highly structured plot moving in the shadow of Greek tragedy. She roams the world with a chastened recognition of larger patterns beyond individual fate, yet never burdens her writing with...