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...time fall rolled around most of the city would be swept up in playoff fever. If there was a playoff game the night before a test, most teachers could be counted on to reschedule...
...Donato stepped to the podium at the press conference formally announcing his hire as men’s hockey coach, a level of electricity, of giddy anticipation, unparalleled in recent memory swept over an audience already awash in the flickering lights of flashbulbs and waiting television cameras...
...against a backdrop of high-rises and office blocks in the heart of the action. In addition to volleyball and sunbathing, it hosts everything from dance parties to children's events. As with its Parisian counterpart, swimming is prohibited. And the beach, which opened in May, will be swept away by municipal workers in September. No matter: with sand and sun?if not surf?so close to home, few are complaining...
...helped launch and justify raged on, the enemy's army had swept through his state capital only hours before and his successor as Virginia's Governor still hadn't been selected by the legislature, but Thomas Jefferson was going home, convinced that his work for America was done. It was the summer of 1781, five years since the July in Philadelphia when the author of the Declaration of Independence had, in two inspired weeks of writing energized by years of thought and study and practical political activity, helped create a new nation with his pen. The course this nation would...
...fourth consecutive season the Crimson swept the Thames River races, as it ran its dual meet record to 7-0—its second straight undefeated season. It was the 36th Harvard-Yale Regatta victory for Harry Parker, who has lost just six times in his 42 years as the men’s heavyweight coach...