Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week-end of house parties was marred for Williams by a Crimson victory when the Purple tennis team dropped five out of six matches to the University invaders last Saturday. Meanwhile the Freshman team was scoring a clean sweep in Cambridge over M. I. T. 1928 by winning seven matches...
...track team opened its outdoor season at Andover Saturday afternoon in defeating the school team by the comfortable margin of 70 6-7 to 55 1-7. Contrary to Coach Farrell's expectation that field events would be the Freshman weakness, the 1928 athletes made practically a clean sweep of the weights but were held to a draw on the track...
...Smith Halls dormitory trackmen held the advantage which they gained in the first nine events of the interdormitory meet on Wednesday and finished first yesterday afternoon with 48 and one-half points. Gore, which was trailing in third place after the first day, made a sweep of the second places yesterday and finished next to Smith with 23 and one half points while Standish came in last with...
...served in so many extemporaneous tag days, has lately branched into a new field of endeavor which shows they have been reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove...
...kingly glory, the lack was unusually difficult. It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump." A thousand jokes at his expense were born. Some said that Frau Ebert would sweep the Presidential Palace herself and that he would polish his own doorknobs. All these jokes he and his wife wisely ignored and soon they ceased...