Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Harvard sweep on the Charles River is expected this afternoon when four Crimson eights take the water against Technology and Columbia...
Princeton, N. J. April 23: Harvard tonight defeated the Princeton debating team to take a clean sweep of the Triangular debating contests...
...battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains Courageous ranks above most current cinematic efforts, offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals. It is during the We're Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night...
Labor's sweep toward power continued to surge and boil across the land last week. Keeping in the van. rank & file motor workers set the week's keynote, showing by a fresh wave of sit-downs that they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear...
...with Canada's prairie farms rehabilitation program, will scatter its lands with dams, dikes, ditches. After the engineers will come a permanent corps of wardens, biologists, breeding experts. They will see that ducks get plenty of food and cover, will fight against botulism and other epidemics which sweep duck populations. They will destroy the crows, cats, coyotes and magpies which prey on ducks, ducklings and duck eggs. They will set up duck factories, plants of incubators and brooders where ducklings may be hatched by hundreds of thousands...