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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puritan halfback Norm Hall took a pitchout from quarterback Frank Scanlon late in the third period and swept around right end for 30 yards and a touchdown. Davenport's Bob O'Connell got the Yale score on a five yard sweep around left end with 40 seconds left in the first half. Winthrop was a definite underdog going into the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Nips Berkeley 19-0 For House-College Title | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

Quarterback Bucky O'Connor led the Bunnies with two touchdowns. John Bagdasarian scored the other on a last period end sweep from the 20. Bunny ends Buz Smyth and Al Glazerman sparked the team both offensively and defensively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Nips Berkeley 19-0 For House-College Title | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

Harvard's national champion intercollegiate sailing team completed a sweep of all major fall meets yesterday, taking the Fowlie Trophy from a field of eight New England college teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Complete Fall Meet Sweep | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...never suggested that the Democrat's sweep is Philadelphia rested on ethnic considerations alone. As everyone concedes, it rested mainly on the zeal of local Democrats. Yet it is fair to say, as we did, that Philadelphia Democrats were not plagued by the same factor that plagued Boston Democrats, the Reds-in-government issue operating on people highly sensitive to the problem of Communism in general. Cities with heavy Catholic vote of cities like say, Los Angeles, where exacerbation of subversion is now a ghastly vogue, offered problems to Stevenson worker's that Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUR GRAPES | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

...short of what he needed to balance the Republicans upstate. (Stevenson finally carried New York City by only 362,674, the smallest Democratic presidential lead since 1924.) Republican Senatorial Candidate Irving Ives was rolling up the largest plurality of any G.O.P. candidate in New York history since the big sweep of Warren G. Harding. Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick finally conceded both races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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