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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings turned in good performances in the 600, the dash, and the shot put, respectively at the trials last week, and should do well today. In most of the other field events and the longer runs, they team's lack of depth will preclude any chance of a sweep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Track Season Will Begin Today | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

...usual, the critics were kind. Liking the clear colors, clean shapes and easy sweep of Hancock's water colors, they winked at the abstract whatnots-right angles, arcs and bright balloons-with which he jazzes some of them up. Hancock, like elder Britons Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland, divides his allegiance between traditional British landscape painting and abstraction; like them, he cannot bear to forsake either one altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Road | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...show starts simply enough as a bedtime story about a nineteenth century chimney-sweep. Then the children and storytellers decide to make an opera out of the tale. As the opera is written, the author gives the audience a part, singing four songs: a prologue, epilogue and two entre-acts. The first set of "Let's Make an Opera" is devoted to the problems of amateurs writing an opera, rehearsing the opera with all sorts of trouble from noisy children, and finally rehearsing the audience. The second act is the opera itself...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/29/1950 | See Source »

...Clean Sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Yale was asked to send up a team to challenge the new Yard champions, but declined. However, both the Matthews North and Thayer Middle intramural touch teams were invited to a victory banquet in the general feeling of good will that followed a clean freshman sweep over Yale in all of the major fall sports...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: Yard Closes Best Intramural Season In History | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

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