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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featured by the attempt of the Varsity hockey team to complete a clean sweep of its Yale series, next Saturday will see the winter sports season approaching its conclusion; for only on the following weekend, that of March 13, will any further indoor sports be held in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indoor Sports Schedule Enters Final Weeks; Seven More Varsity Events | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Schorr who sang the woe of the ghostly captain with such feeling one could well believe he was doomed to sweep across the seas forever until a girl's love would win him rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Progress | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...University "B" squash team defeated the Lincoln's Inn Whites last night four to one. Scoring three victories and winning one match by default the Crimson racquetmen were prevented from making a clean sweep by D. D. Holmes who defeated R. H. Shaw. Other results were C. S. Oakman defeated F. Dana, H. Dekruif defeated J. C. Vance, R. H. Staples defeated J. W. Barclay and P. F. Cunningham won by default from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "B" Squash Wins | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...Trotsky in the issue of Dec. 28 is a melange of vacuity, stupidity and bourgeois sneers. It was written either out of sheer ignorance, for certain statements and implications have no grounds in fact, or what is more probable, a desire to belittle a movement that will some day sweep you and yours, if I may indulge in a little prophecy, off the face of this planet. I can appreciate your fear but not your attempt to fool others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...salesman of everything lethal from a bomb to a battleship. When Chief Green tried to put State Department pressure on Mr. Cuse, the latter would not stay pressured. He demanded a license to sell $2,777,000 worth of aviation equipment to the Spanish Reds and, amid a great sweep of national headlines and much furore in official Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Vimalert Affair | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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