Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time many able women golfers have swept over U. S. fairways-in swishing skirts, in hobble skirts, in knickerbockers, in shorts-have gradually whittled their scores: first to break 100 in national competition was New York's Beatrix Hoyt, thrice U. S. champion (1896-97-98); first to break 90 was Boston's Margaret Curtis, who won the national title three times (1907-11-12); first to break 80 was Providence's Glenna Collett, national champion six times...
...football team was "Big Three" champion for the second straight year; the soccer team was Eastern Intercollegiate champion; the crows swept the Yale regatta for the second successive year and the varsity crew later won the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England...
...kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints, raids, tested the strength of the defenders. Thus it appeared that if Poland did not give way, Germany...
Landing in four groups in a bay to the northwest of Hong Kong, 1,000 men swept across the granite-peaked peninsula behind a curtain of bombings, unresisted except by a few peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...
...final last week, Newcomer McDaniel and Oldtimer Weir, matching aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...