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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Reider led the lone Crimson sweep as he, Phil Williams, and Bill Thompson finished one-two-three in the mile. Reider outsprinted Williams to the tape in 4:15.6, a meet record. Later, he nosed out Dyke Benjamin in the two mile, setting another meet record...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Yale Defeats Track Team, 71-69 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...bottom four positions, captain lan Gianetti, Al Goldman, Ned Weld and Jim Cameron all scored two set victories over their Dartmouth opponents to complete the Crimson's sweep of the afternoon's singles matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tennis Team Defeats Indians, 13-2, for Seventeenth Win | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

More people listed in "Who's Who in America" have attended Harvard than any other university, the publisher's statistics recently indicated. Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Penn follow to give the Ivy League a clean sweep of the first five schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Alumni Top 'Who's Who' Listings In Aggregate Totals | 5/8/1957 | See Source »

...shows in his Dragon Among the Country People the mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after, such scenes appeared as "the very truth of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Wharton withstood a challenge from teammate Jim Cairns to win the 440 by nearly five yards in 49.2 seconds. Al Gordon finished third to give the varsity its lone sweep of the afternoon. Wharton later came back to edge Dodge to win the 220 in 22.1 seconds...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Track Team Beats Tigers, As Landau, Wharton Star | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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