Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot House tennis squad opened the intramural net season Wednesday with a 7 to 0 sweep over Adams. Leverett beat Dunster 4 to 2 with one match remaining to be played off today...
...toiler in the mortuary complained that he got less than $45 a week for doing "cosmetics and hairdressing" and had to work day & night. An embalmer at Forest Lawn (where four union members were fired) cried that he not only had to "prepare remains" but wash windows, sweep floors and roll up gauze and excelsior pads for the "cases'" elbows...
...watchful spectator through the whole record-smashing meet was Yale's Bob Kiphuth, coach of the 1948 Olympic swimming team which scored an unprecedented sweep of every event. Said Kiphuth afterward: "The 1952 Olympic team will be much better than we had before. But the competition will be tougher, too. The Japanese will be there." Kiphuth neglected to mention that the prodigious Marshall of Yale will also be there-swimming for Australia...
...fell in a strongly marked seven-day cycle. Variations in barometric pressure, humidity, temperature, etc., followed the same weekly schedule. Langmuir does not maintain that his silver iodide went all the way to Ohio. But he thinks that New Mexico is a "weather breeder" where weather developments begin and sweep off toward the east. In the past, these weather changes came at irregular intervals. During 1950 they were triggered once a week by silver iodide and so, says Langmuir, brought weekly rain to faraway Ohio...
Naturally the Pretender is looking for friends who will help him sweep doddering old George II off his throne. So far, so good, but there is disappointment ahead for the fan of historical who expects that all this will quickly lead to an old-fashioned uphill & down dale, with the agents of the Hanoverians in hot pursuit. Bonnie Prince Charlie settles down for a lot of long, long talk in the library...