Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly a terrible vision swept across the Vagabond's imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
...Hunter, ex-Dartmouth and Olympic skier, is shown as he negotiated Dick Durrance's giant slatom on Mount Washington. Hunter, who was a member of last year's Dartmouth team which swept all events in the Sun Valley invitation tournament, won in the amateur division of the event. He is now studying in the Graduate School of Design. Hunter's allegiance will be divided when the Crimson ski team participates in the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival on February...
...rest of the meet was decidedly one-sided. Crimson swimmers swept the firsts and seconds in four other events and won both relays decisively. Max Kraus and Jack Waldron finished one-two in the 220 breastroke but Max was disqualified for an illegal turn--touching the wall with one hand only, so Waldron was declared the actual winner. Kraus's unofficial time was 2:40, while Waldron was three secords slower...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...
Captain Tom Macioce leads a team of Columbia veterans who are hoping for their most successful season since 1936-37 when the Lions swept through a league schedule undefeated...