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Word: sweepings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Hatter Knox consented, employed 12-year-old to make fires, to sweep the shop, to run errands, all for $3 weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

While it concedes first and second in the broad jump to French and Rowe of Harvard, and expects Moore and Harding of the Crimson to take the first two places in the javelin, the Blue is looking for a clean sweep in the pole vault and discus throw with Sturdy and Captain Brandenburg winning these last two events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE DOPESTERS EXPECT WIN BY SUPERIORITY IN FIELD | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...preparing to avenge a possible defeat of the University runners by taking the first yearling meet from the Blue in 20 years. Last year the outcome of the first year meet was in doubt until the last event, when three Eli cubs cleared the bar at 11 feet to sweep nine points in the pole vault and slightly dim the glory of the University victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL ELIS ARE FAVORED ON TRACK | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...victories varying from half a length to five and a half lengths four Harvard crews made a clean sweep of their races with Yale on the Basin Saturday afternoon

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR CREWS WIN ON BASIN | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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