Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...players will journey to Concord this morning to tackle the St. Paul's school players. The "A" team met them at the start of the season and although winning by a clean sweep were hard pressed by several of the schoolboy racquet wielders. The "C" team will be made up of the following men N. S. Hardie, E. M. Shelton, G. L. Ware, B. F. Davis, E. M. M. Warburg...
...Class B series, the Harvard players scored a clean sweep when they defeated the Weston Club, gaining fourth place in the Inter-club championship race. The Freshman court men rank eighth in the Class C series by virtue of a 5 to o victory over the Newton Club...
...front of the cage as the Green forwards swarmed down in an effort to ram the puck past Morrill's invulnerable pads. With only half a minute to play Ellison made the best play of the game. The Crimson's captain took the puck on a sweep from behind his own cage, carried it alone down the ice, and scored with a beautiful drive from the boards which fooled Bott, who had replaced Sherman in the Green goal completely...
...Before man was, or fish or birds or living things were, the postal service existed. . . . Before there was a mode of writing, before there were nations or kings or governments, there were messengers bearing news. "LET THERE BE LIGHT" was the first message to sweep across the face of the earth, according to the book of Genesis; and God, Himself, was the delivering Postman, and for six days God created and delivered messages to the earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan...
With a clean sweep on all four boards in the final match with West Point, Princeton nosed out Harvard for the championship of the newly formed Quadrangular Class League in their annual tournament held at the Manhattan Chess Club on December 27, 28, and 29. In one of the closest finishes in the history of the meeting, Princeton overcame Harvard's early lead to win by half a point. This victory, which was the first for Princeton in 15 years, gives them possession of the Belden-Stevens' trophy...