Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cautious but not exactly worried, Crimson varsity and freshman wrestling teams travel down to Connecticut to take on the teams of Wesleyan College, which generally turns out the best grapplers of the smaller New England colleges. "It's like the M.I.T. meet," coach Chief Boston said yesterday, "we may sweep them; or with all the breaks they could edge us by a point...
Philip was first almost early, then almost late. He popped out of Kensington Palace at 11 o'clock, shook hands with a chimney sweep (for luck), glanced at his watch and popped back in again. At 11:05 he and his best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
Soldiers Field gridirons are quiet these days, equipment has been cleaned and hung away for another year, and nothing remains of the defunet House football season but the choice of an eleven-man unit which approximates the Intramural coach's ideal. In spite of the clean sweep of all opposition by the Eliot powerhouse, individual excellence was well scattered through the eight other outfits, with both Kirkland and Leverett placing three players on the first eleven...
Scattered returns, however, showed two score or more Yardlings confined to bedroom and bathroom. Dr. Contratto identified the condition as gastro enteritis and revealed that epidemics of this disease sweep periodically through girl's schools in the Hub area...
...Mastodons tallied twice in the second quarter, capitalizing on intercepted passes and fumbles by the Elis' league-leaders to push over a T.D. and a safety. Austie Lyne plunged over for six points after passes to Dave Abbot and Eddie Carrol and an end sweep by George Golphin had brought the ball...