Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AUGUSTA, Ga.--Saub-nosed Patty Berg of Minneapolis today made a clean sweep of the three annual titlist championships played thus far by winning this year's tournament with an aggregate...
...swim the 50 to give Harvard muchneeded strength in the sprints, but just how Coach Ulen will shuffic his men will not be known until the men are called for their respective events, Lopey Forbush will assist Captain Rusty Greenhood in the dive and the two ought to sweep their event, while Ed Hewitt will be given the call over Bob White to swim with Eric Cutler...
...Rice who wrote The Adding Machine, Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law of all his old cunning, power, punch. American Landscape tells of the head of an old Connecticut family (Charles Waldron), a benevolent paternalist out to sell his factory because it has been unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and fiction's famed Harlot Moll Flanders - rise from their graves...
...this is the breakup, the cataclysm, the drop-curtain on the world. . . . In the Abbey they are still marking the places in the hymnbooks, oblivious of the fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they...
Heralding Saturday's victories, the Houses made a clean sweep of their games with the Yale colleges on Friday afternoon. Lowell beat Pierson 14-0 in a game featured by the two brilliant runs of Mel Gordon. The Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...