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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next, popping into an airplane, Dictator Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito to Balboland | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Strongest candidates in the contest, which will close on Thursday, are members of the Freshman team who, under the leadership of Captain Pete Illman may sweep a greater part of the titles. James O. Sears, Jr. '40 in the 118-pound class and Arthur W. Page, Jr. '40 in the 135-pound division have good chances of victory, while Tudor Gardiner '40, undefeated heavyweight of the Yardling grapplers, may win in the 175-pound and unlimited classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prelim Matches Take Place For University Mat Laurels | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

...clean sweep of victories invincible grapplers from Penn State successfully defended their title in the thirty-third Eastern Intercollegiate wrestling tourney at Lehigh University last Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn State Captures Mat Title in Eight College Tilt | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Sympathy for individuals with special grievances ought not to sweep the Council off a firm footing. Though the latest investigation pops gently in cars tuned to cannon-like reports on Tutoring Schools and House Athletics, it shows now alive the body is to the troubles of the undergraduates. The same energy could well be hitched to heavier wagons than language probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PRO" PROBE | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...shifty looking automobile slithered up to the curve beside us. It was the kind of a car that proves that she doesn't drive a Dusenberg because she had a chauffeur, a footman, and a lapdog to drive it for her. With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review, to an open elevator shaft nearby, that projected from the basement to the sidewalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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