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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity hockey team is going after its fourth straight win and a dcan sweep of the season's two game Northeastern series when it opens tonight's Arena doubleheader at 7 p.m. B.U. meets B.C. in the second game...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Sextet Meets Northeastern Tonight | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...varsity is expected to win easily and thereby make a clean sweep of the two-game series with the Engineers. In a December 4 engagement, the Crimson won, 16 to 8, after scoring three times in the first five minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Faces MIT at Arena Today | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

Nobody came close to Chuck Hooizer in the 200 yard breaststroke, but it took a thrilling last minute sprint for Larry Ward to give Harvard its only sweep of the evening and reduce the Crimson deficit to a single point. In the next race Ted Norris tied the meet up at 34 to 34 by finishing exactly 30 yards ahead of the field in the 440 yard freestyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadets Nose Out Swimmers In Tense, Close 41-34 Meet | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Comedienne Beatrice Lillie, currently cleaning up on Broadway in Inside U.S.A., got herself all dolled up in a black taffeta maid's uniform complete to feather duster, to sweep up a few laughs at Manhattan's annual March of Dimes fashion show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Bowdoin was completely unable to fend off the varsity yesterday, as foilsmen Bill Raney and Joe Vera speared three matches apiece, Chip Arp took two, and Frankman one, for a clean sweep in the division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencers Subdue Bowdoin | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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