Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost causes of Theodore Roosevelt have never seemed quite like the lost causes of anyone else. In the very early Albany era, his politics was mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root would not let him lead a picturesque cavalry squadron to suicide in France, his politics was mere moral indignity. But whenever he abandoned...
...hard court championship, he finished Henri Cochet in short straight sets. In July he won at Wimbledon in a final that some experts considered the greatest tennis match ever played, against Ellsworth Vines. John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford needed only a victory at Forest Hills this week for a clean sweep of the world's four biggest tournaments, a preeminence in tennis that no player has attained since Tilden...
...Hills in 1914 and lost, after one of the longest first sets on record, 15-17, 3-6, 3-6. Since Tilden's retirement to professional tennis and Cochet's unmistakable decline, tennis has had no completely preeminent player. Favorites to prevent Crawford from completing his clean sweep at Forest Hills this week will be Vines, Perry and Shields, three players who certainly belong in the world's first four but whose ratings in relation to each other experts have difficulty in deciding. Others-like Allison and Lott; Sidney Wood, who has slipped since winning at Wimbledon...
...pictures sweep from Sarajevo to Sedan, from recruiting rallies to cemeteries, from ammunition factories to prison camps. Notable shots: Archduke Ferdinand's blood-flecked tunic; silk-hatted Etonians drilling with rifles; French troops deployed for the first battle of the Marne; Serbia's melancholy Peter watching his army break before Mackensen; a direct hit on Rheims Cathedral; the famed River Clyde under fire at Gallipoli; Russian infantry retreating on the run; the U. S. transport Antilles sinking; a No Man's Land capture; U. S. infantry blinded by gas; a dachshund following Kaiser Wilhelm into exile; French...
Nine Harvard crewmen will leave Cambridge today for Philadelphia to compete in the American Henley tomorrow. The Crimson sweep-swingers to row against Eastern college crews on the Delaware River are: W. H. Dunbar '35, L. L. Filstrup '33, R. P. Harmon '35, N. D. Jay '35, M. E. Johnston '35, G. F. F. Lombard '33, D. L. Marks '33, Morris Pfaolzer, 2nd '35, and G. H. Simonds...