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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to make a Democratic sweep in Massachusetts, the Harvard Progressive Committee supporting the president is making nightly trips throughout greater Boston speaking at rallies in that section. Everyone who is interested in making impromptu speeches from their sound truck can take part simply by showing up at Phillips Brooks House at 7:15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Progressive Committee Spellbinds Huge Multitude in Scollay Square from Sound Truck | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...speech Hammond stated emphatically that he considered the election of Landon as "equally important" to obtaining" a clean sweep" in the Massachusetts State elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPUBLICAN CLUB MADE WITH HAMMOND AT HEAD | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...point to the Governor's popularity and non-New Dealism, change its tune from "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Gamble | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

More than two years of intensive planning, construction, and ballyhoo sweep towards their climax today as 15,000 world citizens move on Cambridge for Harvard's three-day, 300th birthday party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invasion of Harvard Men and Guests Swell Ranks of City as Long-Awaited Tercentenary Days Dawn | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

Favored to sweep the swimming races at Berlin as they did at Los Angeles four years ago, the Japanese last week did nothing of the sort. When the six men's events were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style (Jack Medica). Japanese swimmers had won only three events (200-metre breast stroke, 1,500-metre free style, and 800-metre relay). U. S. victories by Dick Degener and Marshall Wayne in springboard and platform diving respectively clinched aquatic superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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