Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard swept the first four singles matches without giving up more than eight games in any of the contests...
Vigna's thrilling victory was the feature match of the Harvard-Syracuse dual tennis match, swept by the Crimson in front of 40 spectators at Palmer Dixon Courts...
Sophomore Matt Collins won the javelin with a throw of 193-ft., 2-in. The Crimson swept the javelin event, as William Krause, Shawn Carew and John Grinalds all earned points for Harvard...
...into space. Still, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch detected a weak spot: no major U.S. publishing house. Meanwhile, 170-year-old Harper & Row, which has published authors ranging from Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
...Crimson has traditionally dominated the competition for the Biglin Bowl, earning the trophy 27 times in 32 years. In each of the past two seasons, the Harvard lights have swept the races, earning convincing victories at the JV and freshman levels as well...