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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conceivably carry his European success across the globe to Asia, and there nail down the Asian threat so that the British and French see its full relevance to Europe. From Geneva, all three powers and their friends might achieve the resolve to block-by "massive retaliation"-the continuing forward sweep of Communism in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Living Dangerously | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Persians & Dante. On the undergraduate level, the pursuit begins in the widest possible ways. When the curtain goes up, it is to reveal the entire sweep of Western civilization. With none of the old, narrow surveys, students are required to take at least six broad general-education courses, distributed throughout the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This amounts to a study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Falk, Jaffe Sweep...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Varsity, Yardling Swimmers Beat Nassau, Edge Williston | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Anti-Communists who have a hard time understanding the full sweep of Soviet plans and the relation of one threatened part of the world with another should find this helpful. Dulles. Eden and Bidault have succeeded in making the witness for Communism tell the truth. No greater victory was possible at Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Victory at Berlin | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...performance with a double backward somersault which dropped him to the mat with a sure-footed slap. In all, Stattin won four firsts (horizontal bar, parallel bars, long horse and rings), a second in calisthenics, and a fifth in side horse (where the Illini scored a 1-2-3 sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscular Missionaries | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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