Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aise), and Lucien Lacour. In turn it is sponsored by the French Royalist newspaper, L'Action Française, of which Léon Daudet is the head. Writing of them Daudet says: "Camelots du Roi was the beginning of a vast movement which was soon to sweep along the majority of French youth." To some extent this is true...
There has been much during the last three years to strain relations between these two governments. When the Turks, fired by a new nationalism, began to sweep into Europe, the British were very surprised to see the French Government withdrawing its troops from the joint guard, leaving English troops alone at Chanak. But this slight misunderstanding was dispelled when France and England together forced the Turk to accept the terms of the armistice at Mudania. They were acting again in harmony at Lauzanne, with peace apparently in sight, when the conference suddenly came to a dead stop and the delegates...
Yesterday afternoon in Hemenway gymnasium, the University gymnasts were defeated by the strong Princeton team, 38-7. Princeton made a clean sweep in both the horizontal baar and tumbling events, winning four first places and tying for the fifth one. The Princeton team was remarkably well balanced and owed its superiority to no individual star, none of the team contributing more than five points to the total score...
Saturday's clean sweep was marked by keenly contested play, only one match being won in straight games. W. P. Dixon '25 showed up especially well in defeating Henry Harper who recently won the Metropolitan championship...
...Freshman squad, most of whom competed in the first meet which resulted in an overwhelming victory over Boston Latin School and English High School. In that meet the first-year men piled up a total of 51 points won seven out of eight first places, and made a clean sweep in two events...