Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long before the inherent evils of the old system had been brought sharply to public attention, Penn State decided to set its football house in order. In a clean and drastic sweep that shocked the pigskin world, football scholarships were abandoned, coaches were appointed to be not only gridiron mentors but bona fide faculty members as well. A thorough stimulation was applied to intramural athletics, although the true value and position of intercollegiate competition was by no means underrated...
...members of the University for a much more feasible amount than is in effect at present. Professional football is to be seen for $1; one of Harvard's big games costs $4.40 to the unbooked students. Undergraduate interest in professional football can be expected to rise as economic conditions sweep it in in place of high-priced, gold mine Harvard football. This morning's figures serve as an estimate of the complications that modern sports entail in a large University. It is unfortunate that these conditions should serve to check the interest of those who should be primarily concerned...
...present time, we read a total of 225 electoral votes. The Governor then needs only Massachusetts and California to give him the needed 266 for election. But the Literary Digest Poll's latest returns concede to him, California, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, and even Pennsylvania. This combination would sweep him to an over-whelming victory...
...proposed, the restrictions are petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner...
Yesterday Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School suggested in a radio address two methods of attacking the economic distress of the country. Unemployment the Dean would sweep away by dividing available work among all the men fit for positions. The basic cause of business depression, maladjustment, would be taken care of by a permanently established national planning board. These ideas are not new, but they have hitherto been considered radical, indeed socialistic, and it is a surprising indication of the progress of the times to hear them from the Dean of a Harvard graduate school...