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Word: swept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard baseball team swept Army and split with Columbia in Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League doubleheaders this weekend, raising its league record to 7-5 (13-8 overall...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: EIBL Title Hopes Lost at Sea | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...something incredible happened last weekend: Brown swept a doubleheader from Princeton...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Tigers Tremble and Bruins Beware | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

That's the batsmen's record in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. The problem is that Navy, which swept the batsmen last weekend, 2-1 and 11-1, is 13-3 in the league...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: ....And B.C. Batsmen Slug to Victory; Eagles Hit 5 Homers in 8-4 Conquest | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...familiar with that order, four paragraphs flash across the screen a la Star Wars and inform us that the universe is a balance between GOOD and EVIL, two constituent parties which hold each other in check. Anything which musses up this cosmic tidiness must therefore be swept under the divine carpet before the universe is destroyed...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...world's second-ranked female chess player (behind the Soviet Union's Maya Chiburdanidze, 25), the teenager soundly thrashed six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne, 37, on her way to a respectable showing of 25th in the top section of the tournament. Sister Sophia, 11, meanwhile swept to second place in the expert category. Finally, the baby of the family, Judith, a pudgy, self-confident nine-year-old, astounded observers by posting seven straight victories and a draw to take first place among the tournament's 1,000 unranked players. "A family might have one prodigy, but to have three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don't Play Around with the Polgars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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