Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Manhattan at their dancing feet, 90 remarkable Russians launched a seven-week campaign this week to sweep through eleven other U.S. and Canadian cities across the continent. The invaders: Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company (TIME, April 14). Every night for three weeks the standees jostled four deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok...
...third Crimson sweep came in the high jump, where John deKiewiet, Bob Downs, and Cal Kean finished in a three-way tie for first at 6 feet, 2 inches. In the hammer, John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both far exceeded their best throws of the season to take first and second. DuMoulin threw 178 feet, 2 inches, and Doty 171 feet, 51/2 inches...
...Prentice Cup competition is held every two years. This summer, the American team will have the opportunity of traveling to England to defend the cup it has held for several years. In 1956, Junta, then a Sophomore, won almost all his matches to help the Harvard-Yale team sweep the visitors...
Class Day that year, one observer reported, "had all the pomp and pageantry, the charm and beauty, the youth and color that has marked the occasion down through the sweep of the years. For Harvard was about to part with an old friend. It appeared difficult for the gathering to realize that Dr. Lowell wouldn't be with them on the class days to come, and they didn't seem to like...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity set a new record Saturday to beat Princeton, MIT and Rutgers in the Compton Cup race. The varsity win was the climax of a day that saw the Crimson sweep four races at Princeton and five lightweight races at Dartmouth...