Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remote as ever. Despite tall talk and flowery promises, President Hoover's Better Homes conferences were unable to get the building ball rolling against the dogged opposition of bankers holding delinquent mortgages, landlords with vacant property. The R. F. C. whose friends boasted that it would soon sweep slums out of existence has authorized one building loan of $3,957,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. concern but not one cent in cash has yet been made in advance to commence construction...
...would destroy the fine body of coaches that the H.A.A. has gathered together during the last few years; it would, in that destruction, remove what is perhaps one of the greatest incentives for participation in group athletics--the desire for the improvement which professional coaches can effect. It would sweep away the foundations upon which American College Athletics rest...
...reply: "I'm proud of being a naval officer. ... I will not be muzzled, intimidated nor stopped. . . . The principle of the right of liberty itself is involved. . . . Whether or not General Harbord, General Pershing and I are on the retired list makes no difference. . . . The movement will sweep forward...
Having defeated a strong West Point team six to two, the Harvard Chess Team is favored to sweep the boards in the annual intercollegiate matches to he held this year at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City Starting today, and lasting three days until Friday, December 23. Princeton, last year's winner, has a well balanced team, and Yale and Dartmouth will have worthy aggregations, although Yale has already been defeated by West Point. After much selecting and pruning as a result of the Metropolitan League matches, the first team now includes M. L. Stark '33, Captain...
...ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough to get a close 10-round decision...