Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Walsh, his Attorney General-designate. Once inside the Capitol, they separated. Mr. Hoover going to the President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless to get going. Ten minutes before noon he moved down the corridor toward the Senate, only to be stopped at the door, told that it was not yet time for his entrance. "All right...
Although the Exeter trackmen broke three records in their meet with the Freshmen on Saturday afternoon, the Freshmen defeated them, 51 2-3 43 1-3 by steady, rather than brilliant scoring The redeeming feature for the Freshmen was the clean sweep made in the 1000-yard run under the leadership of R. S. Playfair...
...missions, currently discussed all over the Protestant world (TIME, Nov. 28), urges that Christianity be rooted in foreign soils. But Missionary Jones talked with Dr. Hu Shih, poet, philosopher, agnostic leader of China's "renaissance," who told him: "China has nothing worth preserving. . . . We must make a clean sweep and adopt Western culture and outlook." Says Dr. Jones: "I gasped...
...mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still in front, 1 min., 15 sec. at the finish. Later in the day, to make the U. S. sweep complete, Ace, Gull, Tempe III and Winsome won a team race against four Cuban star boats, 24 points...
...Yale yearlings, Wyman has worked to lower his time and he now covers the four laps in 55 3-5 seconds. If Jennings drops the backstroke to enter this event, the Harvard men may expect a stiff battle, but otherwise it is probable that they will make a clean sweep...