Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached...
...will still be gradual: So far, the decision involves only "the five school districts cited . . . No change would necessarily occur in the other 11,173 districts . . . until and unless individual suits were brought." But gradual or not, says Ashmore, the change is bound to come eventually."In the long sweep of history, the public-school cases before the Supreme Court may be written down as the point at which the South cleared the last turning in the road to reunion- the point at which finally, and under protest, the region . . . accepted the prevailing standards of the nation at large...
James J. Wade '54, Dunster athletic secretary, credited the Houses' sweep of A, B, and C squash titles and the resulting 185 points, wioth providing the necessary lead. Dunster's only other first came in B basketball...
Winning the 440 by a step over Little, Alpers again astonished the Elis in the 880, the first time he ever ran this distance. Giegengack was trying for a sweep, entering Meader, Stanley, and Joe Albanese, all of whom have run under 1:56, but with a late kick, Alpers beat out Stanley for second, finishing a foot behind Meader. The winning time...
...against the Lions--the Crimson's third league victory against one tie and no defeats--saw the varsity sweep the singles. Ham Gravem, Brooks Harris, John Rauh, Alex Haegler, Gene Mann, and Donn Spencer were the victors. Gravem, Harris, and Haegler had to go three sets for their victories, however...