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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Morgan, IV '36 won all his bouts, taking two in the foil and two in the saber. Captain Phillip E. Lilienthal '36 won all three of his matches in foils, and Richard Ford '36, a member of last year's championship intercollegiate opee team, had a clean sweep in this event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fencers Pin Tech by Decisive Score of 20-7 | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

...guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Clinching the lead position in the Intercollegiate League, the Varsity Squash Team A defeated Yale in New Haven on Saturday by capturing seven matches to two for the Blue. The Crimson Freshmen made it a clean sweep by defeating the Yale Yearlings four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Harvard goes to Philadelphia with a record of four impressive victories behind it, an 8-0 sweep over M.I.T., and a 41/2 to 31/2 win over a very strong Virginia team at Charlottesville. The prospects for the rest of the year are very good, as the Crimson boxers, led by Captain Bill Smith have shown great power so far. Among the outstanding performers this year have been Gordon Robertson, who scored a knockout in the Technology match, and Stuart Finer, in the 115-pound class, who has never been defeated in intercollegiate competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Week-end Sports | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

...first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well up, suddenly and dramatically, to sweep Mussolini from power. Any other conclusion would seem far fetched and miraculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CRUMBLING DICTATORSHIP | 1/15/1936 | See Source »

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