Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball team plays two home games this weekend, facing Gordon College today and Springfield tomorrow. Because the Crimson has beaten both teams earlier this season, coach Alex Bell expects his nine to sweep the two-game series...
...field events, however, may decide the meet. The Crimson's Jim Doty should take the hammer throw over Bill O'Connor of Cornell, and teammate Stan Doten could give the varsity a one-two sweep. In the shot, Penn's Carl Shine, the Heptagonal winner, and Dave Sikarskie, who threw 51 ft., 7 in. last week in the Penn Relays, make a formidable and virtually unbeatable twosome...
...there are some marvellous things in the new book. The title story, about a frumpy lady chimney sweep who is turned into a "beautiful, glamorous movie star," covers familiar ground wtih unfamiliar dexterity; if we must have more jokes about Method acting, let us by all means have Mr. Feiffer's image of "The Inner Me Acting Academy." His ear for catch phrases and talent for parodying them are as precise and effective as ever; in the story entitled "Boom!" he reproduces a dialogue of two generals discussing their progress: "This is last year's bomb. We thought...
Joel Landau, Frank Yeomans, and Sandy Dodge followed the 440 victory with a sweep in the 100, but the heroics were just beginning. After Landau, running the high hurdles only ten minutes after his 10.1 win in the 100, lost a close race to Cadet Gil Roesler, the varsity's Art Cahn, Gus Schumacher, and Andy Bacher faced Army's Bill Hanne...
...Downs finished second in the broad jump, which the Cadets figured to sweep, losing by the scant margin of one inch. Pat Liles was third, just two inches behind winner John Hoas of Army, even though he severely twisted his ankle before the meet...