Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...players seemed to be bothered by a high wind that swept across the court and on the whole the tennis played by the Harvard courtmen was of a rather mediocre brand...
...activity for all University oarsmen, three races being completed in as many classes. The feature event was the mile and three quarters contest between crews B, C, and D on the winding course between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing. Crew D, stroked by James Lawrence '29, swept to a clear cut victory over the other two boats, winning from crew C with a length of open water margin and from crew B by six lengths...
...college life was radically upset by the war hysteria which swept the country and the Class of 1920 did not see fit to hold the song and dance celebration. In 1918 the class of 1921 put the affair on its feet once more with Smith Halls again proving its vocal supremacy. However, it remained for the Class of 1922 to make momentous changes in the Jubilee complex and increase the tempo...
...Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations, waited patiently...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...