Word: sweepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With its clean sweep in the Holy Cross race last week the University team added to its unbroken series of victories. For three years both the University and Freshman harriers have defeated Yale in the dual meet, and have been under a strict training regimen in preparation for the Yale race next week...
...sweep rakes...
Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...
...bright eyes reaching from the Atlantic coast over the Alleghenies to the Great Lakes, begins a vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude...
...hosts of Sandino sweep on, attempting to capture the park, to use the stone wall for protection. It is now daylight?the Americans have not retreated an inch. The constabulary maintain their positions. The American sharpshooters are piling up the dead...