Word: swept
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee has swept aside the old foot-fault rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck." The main purpose of the rule is to prevent the server from taking an unfair advantage in getting...
...Treaty safely in its grave, they must be exceedingly surprised to find the supposed corpse very much alive and kicking. The gentlemen of the Upper House could not have seriously believed that the country would let them commit their crime without molestation. The fury of indignation that has swept not only America, but the whole world--except Germany, of course--cannot have startled them much; or if it did, it does not speak; well for their intelligence...
Brown put up more opposition than any of the other teams during the early season games and held the University to a 7-0 score on October 18. The touchdown came in the first quarter when an 80-yard march down the field swept the Brown team off its feet. During the second half a series of criss-cross plays took the Brown football machine from their own 25-yard line to the University's 22-yard mark before the Crimson men could stop the onrush. J. K. Ryan Occ and P. D. Steele '20 in the end berths, accounted...
...they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships of the Allied navies to keep the Germans bottled up and the sea-lanes open...
...laurels at New Haven, with a 5 to 3 victory over the Elis, the University was put to severe test Saturday by the strong Brown team, only winning by a score of 7-0. In the first quarter a march down the field for 80-yards, which swept Brown off their feet, resulted in the only score of the game. An average gain of six yards per play carried the ball from the Crimson 20-yards line through the Brown defense to a touchdown...