Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prewar Jubilees attracted national notice, and 1939 saw the notorious gold-fish-eating craze start here to sweep the country within a few weeks. Ingenious Irving M. Clark '41 captured undisputed Cambridge laurels by gulping 26 fish and craftily disqualifying an illegitimate M.I.T. entry who slipped 42 undersized creatures down his gullet...
...they tripped Yale's Branford College 27 to 24, while the Gold Coast squash squad served up a 3 to 2 decision over the Branford entry. In the action at the blockhouse, the Bellboy mermen turned in their best times of the year in an attempt to complete the sweep, but the undermanned team lost the final relay, and with it the meet, to Pierson College of Yale...
...Nazis tried to sweep the tables in World War II by Rommel's drive into Egypt. The Russians placed a tentative bet only a year ago, lost out with their fiasco in Azerbaijan, Iran. Now Russia has raised the ante by threatening Greece and Turkey. Last week, President Truman dealt in the U.S. - in a diplomatic way -by asking for a $400,000,000 loan to Greece and Turkey, accompanied by mili tary advisers and weapons (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The loud talk was all of Greece and Turkey, but the whispers be hind the talk were of the ocean...
...last year's efforts are to serve as any criterion of what Crimson bank-standers can expect, the Varsity has a harder pull ahead than tugging an II-foot sweep through the water. The lone victory in '46 was sweet, however, as they left a Yale crew far behind on the Charles...
...siren which means foul in horse racing, even L'Humanite's editors seemed to think the Russian sweep had been rather too much of a good thing. But in their shoddy, Left-Bank hotel, the Russian ladies explained it: "The French women do not plan. We won because we work and plan...