Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time waitresses. The Dining Halls are not losing a great deal of money on student waiters, for they manage to pay them at an hourly rate of forty-one cents--some 18 per cent below the minimum established by the University Employment Office. So that in threatening a clean sweep of student waiters' jobs, with a resultant corps of entirely professional waitresses, the authorities are motivated primarily by the desire to avoid investigation and publicity...
...wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
...green and unseasoned. His work and proved ability, coupled with the desires of the men who played under him to a trial of at least a year. If the experiment is not a success, it will then be time for Harvard to weigh the advantages of a clean sweep at Soldiers Field...
Elated over the result, Mr. Johnston planned to try the fingerprint campaign elsewhere, hoped it would sweep...
...Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...