Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuffy" nature. Catholic or non-Catholic. He had begun to draw, paint, write stories; he yearned for action, detested orthodox stability, made the discovery that aristocrats and Jews were prime enemies of the people. "How I long for the Great War!'' he wrote in 1889. "It will sweep Europe like a broom, it will make Kings jump like coffee beans on the roaster...
Senior Pete Harpel led a Crimson sweep of the hammer, as he broke Sam Felton's seven-year-old record of 180 feet, 5 1/4 inches with a toss of 182 feet, 4 1/2 inches. John DuMoulin and Jim Doty took second and third for the varsity...
Dartmouth failed to enter a man in the two-mile, giving the varsity an automatic sweep, with Pete Reider edging out team-mate Dyke Benjamin, with Dave Norris third...
Last year the lightweight crews made a clean sweep of the M.I.T. race. Joe Brown, coach of the 150-pounders, expects the varsity to be as good as last year's. He noted that the varsity lost no one by graduation, and said that the experienced crew had had a good time trial yesterday...
Pete Harpel in the hammer looks like a sure bet to break Sam Felton's record of 180 feet, 5 3/4 inches, but whether or not he does it this afternoon could well depend on the performance of Bixby. John DuMoulin and Doty threaten a Crimson sweep if Bixby falters...