Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...History students in search of a good course. Page one of any book on Education says that this should not be so, but the teaching of history's mazes is understandably jammed with recounters of obscure events, and with lecturers who ride private hobby horses down the long sweep of History. That Professor Crane Brinton has synthesized rather than compromised these extremes is a viewpoint that surprising numbers of otherwise unwarlike History concentrators will advance belligerently...
Dana Jackson and Hank Dodd of the Green will probably be able to relax in the back stroke. But home rooters can look to divers Bob Aaron and Tommy Drohan, who were seperated from each other by .04 of a point against Navy, to repeat this sweep in the dive...
...careless atomic aggressor, Professor Teller admits, might outsmart himself by poisoning the atmosphere too strongly: the radioactive wind might sweep around the world and irradiate his own nation. But even this obstacle is not insuperable: "Different radioactive products have different rates of decay. The attacker is therefore in a position to choose the radioactive products best suited to his attack. With the proper choice, he could ensure that his victim would be seriously damaged by them, and that they would have decayed by the time they reached his own country...
After a nip-and-tuck first half, during which the lead changed nine times, the Crimson left the floor with a 24 to 23 advantage. But the Ithacans combined offensive accuracy with a tight defense to sweep six points ahead early in the second half, and although the Varsity threatened consistently thereafter, Coach Bill Barclay's squad was never able to catch...
Ulen must rely for pointal padding on Jerry Gorman and Forbes Norris in the quarter-mile, and Walt Bullard to battle for the 100 free and to lead the 220 race. Divers Tom Drehan and Bob Aaron will also be called upon to sweep the dive over Navy's competent Peter Genger and Joe Morrison...