Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis, two other Australian Davis Cup men, Brian I. C. Norton and Gerald Patterson (team captain) succumbed in turn to John Hennessey, "Indianapolis cyclone." The event was a rain-soaked Western championship, top honors in which the "cyclone" did not quite sweep away from towering Will Tilden, national champion...
...behind and the race became slower. It soon became clear that the Blues were taking things easy and no effort at speed was made until the last quarter-mile, when the Yale crew made a final but unnecessary spurt which sent them to victory in a majestic and exultant sweep, four lengths ahead of the Crimsons. Then the Blue crew for the fourth year in succession sat up and grinned at one another as the spent "red bellies" glided home. Little cheering was heard, probably because the issue had long been decided in the minds of the spectators...
...Freshman Race and the Junior Varsity Race Yale won by three and one lengths, respectively, and therefore made a clean sweep of the river. It was one of the most successful campaigns ever waged by Yale against Harvard...
Rowing. Over 20,000 people saw the Yale Eight sweep down the Schuykill at Philadelphia half a length ahead of the Navy Eight? over a mile and a quarter course. This victory, which is but one of many, earned for the Yale crew the coveted right of representing the U. S. on the Seine next month. The time (5 minutes 51 seconds) was thought to be a new world's record...
Both generalities have a magnificent dramatic sweep, and both contain elements of truth. Just why seventy-five per cent of all college students go to college is one of the eternal mysteries which high Heaven and Conan Doyle alone can solve. For the most part, it seems due to tradition, a sense of the irreducible social minima, and a praiseworthy spirit of noblesse oblige; or it may be a vague present satisfaction of future desires, a faint, presaging indication of that moral awakening which in the opinion of a prominent school of psychological thought the final development of the perfect...