Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These wins might be offset by a Dartmouth sweep in the pole vault. Both Bill Buchanan and Lou Metzger of the Green have topped the best Crimson effort this season...
...hockey and figure skating events are the Americans' strongest, and the U.S. will be trying to sweep the first three places in the men's skating with Hayes Alan Jenkins, Ronnie Robertson, and Dave Jenkins. In the women's division, Miss Albright and Miss Helss will be pointing for a one-two finish. The American sextet is expected to finish third, and has an outside chance for second place
Upstate, Chep Morrison, a Catholic, failed to make headway against an old tradition that a Catholic cannot be elected governor of Louisiana. In New Orleans, which Morrison expected to sweep, he barely skimmed through on top; analysis of the vote showed that a lot of the Negroes unexpectedly chose Long as "the poor man's friend...
...aircraft builders (Boeing, Beech) and the friendly musicians' union local, they managed to collect $300. They wrote letters to some 70 other musicians in nearby towns, asking them to play the first year without pay. The infant orchestra rehearsed in a hotel ballroom, where the players had to sweep the floor themselves. That was eleven years ago. Today, the Wichita Symphony has an $80,000 yearly budget and not even the local baseball club, the Wichita Indians, could be closer to the town's heart. Items...
...while mounting work from his Ohio days, Burchfield suddenly decided to use his early sketches as a starting point, expand them in his old lyric style. The attempt, he wrote, released "a long-pent-up subconscious yearning to do fanciful things, and once started, it seemed to sweep onward like a flooded stream; there was no stopping it." An example of Burchfield's new-found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene shows Little Beaver Creek, Burchfield's boyhood swimming hole, capturing with almost...