Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson number one man Haddon Tomes led the team to victory with a hard-fought win over his Navy counterpart Tom Lynch by scores of 18-13, 14-18, 18-15, 15-1. Number two man Larry Brownell won in a clean sweep from Navy's Doug Egan by an 18-14, 15-12, 15-3 count...
...clean sweep in the running events led the Yardling track team to an overwhelming 72 3/5 to 8 2/5 triumph over Phillips Academy at Andover yesterday afternoon. The informal meet was the first of the year for the Crimson, which opens its official season against Boston University Saturday. Joel Cohen led the way for the freshmen with 11 4/5 points, including victories in the 40-yard high hurdles and the broad jump...
...stock-car class, the Lincolns repeated their 1952 sweep, finished 1-2-3-4, with Milwaukee's Chuck Stevenson leading the way at an average 93.2 m.p.h. A Porsche led the small sports cars with 80.1 m.p.h., a Chevrolet the small stock cars with 77.1. Chief cost: nine dead...
Dispassionate Wonder. Renny's Whiteoaky common sense drives Dilly crazy. "Patronizing brute!" she screams, waving a poker at him. But the master is so unmoved that when Dilly bends over "to sweep the hearth," he, "dispassionately observing her figure from the rear, wondered how he ever could have expected her to have a good seat on a horse." "Her achievement," Critic Edward Weeks has said of Author de la Roche, "makes me think of Trollope and Galsworthy." In fact, Author de la Roche's achievement seems to be that she knows that Jalna's changeless orchards, spaniels...
Lloyd P. "Mickey" Mockmouse's Plympton St. Pigskinners, winless until Saturday, completed a sweep of New Haven as they smashed a totally inept Yale Daily News team...