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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Cowles' Varsity tennis team suffered its first defeat of the year yesterday afternoon when a strong North Carolina aggregation edged the Crimson 5-4. Although Harvard was able to sweep the three doubles encounters, the outcome of the match was already settled with the visitors annexing five of the six singles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NETMEN LOSE TO CAROLINIANS 5 TO 4 | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

Coach Tom Bolles may well see a coming Crimson championship eight sweep on to a flashing victory today as the untested but powerful Varsity oarsmen encounter Rutgers and M. I. T. in the Rowe Memorial Cup Regatta on the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Will Turn on Power for First Time Today In Rowe Memorial Cup Regatta Against Rutgers and M.I.T. | 4/30/1938 | See Source »

Primed for a slow, even stroke over the Denley distance University sweep-swingers meet two completely over-hauled boats, but neither is expected to challenge seriously Harvard's supremacy on the waves. Rutgers has already bowed before the Bengal oarsmen and M. I. T. has met but ineffective competition thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Will Turn on Power for First Time Today In Rowe Memorial Cup Regatta Against Rutgers and M.I.T. | 4/30/1938 | See Source »

...University of Washington oarsmen: a clean sweep over the University of California crews (varsity, junior varsity, freshman) in the No. 1 regatta of the Pacific Coast; for the fourth year in a row; on Lake Washington, Seattle. For the varsity crew, U. S. and Olympic champions, it was the 19th consecutive major victory in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...take off for the outposts of British rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Imperial's Empire | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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