Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imbedded in an early stratum were found two bristles. It was assumed that these were the remnants of primitive animals, but a closer investigation led to the theory that they represented an attempt to sweep up the gathering debris. That such an attempt was ever made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring...
Three falls and four decisions gave the Crimson wrestlers a clean sweep over Norwich Saturday evening. The meet was one of the big features of the winter carnival at Northfield, Vermont, and over 600 spectators watched Coach Lewis' men down the local matmen. The score, 27-0, was one of the biggest ever piled up by a University team...
...enacted in the State under whose jurisdiction they lie, by converting themselves into National Banks. The tendency of the best State banks of Oklahoma a few years ago to do this, was the main feature which prevented the serious collapse of banks in that State from making a clean sweep of Oklahoma's banking institutions...
Into the office of a Manhattan newspaper walked a gentleman who said that he was Carl Chapin Countryman, that the Republicans would sweep the country in 1924, that President Coolidge would be reelected, that C. C. Countryman would be elected Vice President. His principal reason for the last statement was that, like Calvin Coolidge, hi? own initials...
...committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year-old girl, Mary Peters, daughter of Karl Peters, Chief of the Cheka...