Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...
...University tennis team scored another clean sweep yesterday afternoon, defeating M. I. T. on the Divinity Courts 9 to 0. The second tennis team was not so successful at Andover, where it lost to the schoolboys by the close score of 4 to 5, thus losing to Andover for the first time in two years...
...great task, it is the cause of the toiling and producing millions. We are still in the minority. Our cause is still unpopular, for it opposes the established order of things and expresses ideas which are in advance of the times. Nevertheless, we will sweep into power and establish democracy on a worldwide basis...
Paintings, first-editions, and especially the manuscripts of authors are peculiarly the property of the country which produces them. They are the concrete expression of the best that the nation has done, and yet Americans with more money and collective instinct than respect for national possessions, make a clean sweep of these rarities, leaving Europe to console itself with second-bests...
...Freshman team plays at Andover in its second match of the season. The Saturday match with M. I. T. showed the 1928 team's strength, when the Freshmen walked off with a clean sweep...