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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varsity fours also won their race to give Radcliffe a sweep of the varsity heavyweight division...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Radcliffe, Harvard Crews Show Championship Style In Capturing Seven of Nine Eastern Sprints Titles | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Well, that's exactly what the Harvard squad has to do in order to win the EIBL--take the final five contests. Which means the diamondmen have to sweep three games this weekend against Navy (today at 3 p.m.) and league-leading Princeton (doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. tomorrow) on Soldier's Field...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Key League Tilts | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

Sources in the department and close to the executive committee yesterday called the personnel decisions "an across-the-board sweep" of the department's leading teachers...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Vis Stud Personnel Shake-Up May Indicate Policy Changes | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

...bulldozer was the instrument of this death by perfect execution. Would you pay $9 a game for a package of seven season and three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo 19 for a re-re-run. I hate to say it, but give me the days when Flipper was flipping out of a bucket...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...locate the thousands of shells, rockets and bombs that fell into the canal during the 1967 and 1973 wars and the 1969-70 "war of attrition." Commanding the operation is U.S. Rear Admiral Brian McCauley, 52, who directed the American minesweeping of Haiphong harbor. He explained that helicopters will sweep for magnetic, acoustic and pressure mines and also "fashion a map of the canal's bed to show us where all the junk is. During the second stage, called 'Nimbus Moon,' the map will guide the Egyptian and British divers who will defuse or explode all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Clean Sweep of the Canal | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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