Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's Intercollegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie, Washington scored a clean sweep. Had Washington sent no crews at all, last week's Poughkeepsie Regatta would still have amounted to a demonstration of Washington's rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
...time and distance of each day's rowing. To avoid overtraining he ceases coaching a week before the major races. His favorite starting-line goad: "It doesn't mean anything to think you're good-go out and prove it." Upon seeing Washington complete a second sweep at Poughkeepsie last week, Rusty Callow, seated nearby on the observation train, grabbed Al Ulbrickson and kissed him. Harvard as well as Yale has a Washing-ton-trained coaching staff this year. From Poughkeepsie, Al Ulbrickson and Rusty
...with all this, Rightist Franco cannot now finally sweep Spain, Germany and Italy will probably abandon him, but not the Rightist principle. Diplomatically they may move for a compromise which will restore one of the sons of Alfonso XIII (probably Don Juan, the healthiest) to the throne of Spain, counting on the backing of Britain who is eager for anything that will halt the threat of a general European...
...carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...
...last notes of a last Harvard song sweep out over the mass of pelicans, and with Yard cops bating their breaths a herd of students burst down the steps. There are a few cries of "Rinchart", the sound of moving bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...