Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Radcliffe sailing team is looking for a clean sweep of the national championships this month, as the team will have representatives at both the Women's National Championships and the Men's North American Championships...
Terse Shapes. The word primitive simply evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino...
Harvard did it with a frantic 11 for 12 blitz of the last dozen contests, including seven of eight in the last week and a three-game sweep of Penn (2) and Princeton when the chips were on the line...
Harvard's hot-hitting Leigh Hogan [right] was selected by the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League as Player of the Week last week for his play in the regular season double-header sweep of Princeton and the single game rout of Navy...
...government to seize individual property, as Nasser did. As a result of the verdict, at least 1,000 Egyptian citizens stand to recover property taken from them during the Nasser years. This week there will be a national referendum to approve Sadat's "October working paper," a broad-sweep charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...