Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other 18 prizes awarded yesterday, four went to Harvard alumni, two to former Neiman fellows, and one to a former lecturer in a "Harvard sweep" of the prizes, said a Columbia spokesman...
...doubles action, the top duo of Boss and Bland captured a 6-3, 6-2 win over Kirkmire and Julie Park, leading Harvard to a sweep over the Big Green...
PUIG IS not the magician with words that some of his contemporaries are; though perhaps partly the fault of the translator, his prose does not roll forward with the colorful sweep of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, does not maintain the lively, fresh tone of Julio Cortazar. Finally Pubis Angelical is not successful when considered as a whole. The three interwoven parts of the narrative do not converge to a single story; they are not unified by a definite connection between the characters, and their similarities do not, in the end, seem very convincing. The optimistic, peaceful conclusion of the novel...
...haven't had much time to work on my home run trot," he remarked. Surhoff's homer to center off reliever Steve Crawford allowed the Brewers to complete a three-game sweep of their opening series with the defending American League champions...
...years before he built his first building, but he remained in thrall to Corbusier and concrete and public architecture. Tange was well- suited by temperament and history to be a Corbusian. The French master's stark, sweeping forms have the purity of Zen monoliths, and concrete was a practical material for rebuilding bombed-out, impoverished Japan. Tange's first realized design was archetypally postwar: the Hiroshima Peace Center. * Finished in stages during the early 1950s, the complex is a complete preview, in miniature,of Tange's architectural career. Nearly all of his low-rise, high-modern ideas are on display...