Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Matches played yesterday by both the University second and the Freshman teams resulted in victories. The second team defeated the Tech. freshmen by six matches to two, while the 1922 players made a clean sweep over English High School with a score of 6-0. Cauldwell, for Technology, played a strong game, varying a reverse service with a straight cross-court one. D. P. Robinson '21 was the best individual player for the University, defeating Elliot in two well played sets...
...Ship of State to harbor sweep...
...aeroplane used for bombing was hithertofore considered a feat for night, but bombing in done now in the daytime. Bombs are dropped on billets and both sides sweep down on roads with machine gun fire directed on camions and troops. Three times this happened on our roads, and the aviators on both sides have become remarkably effective. Of course there are many air flights, and these are always interesting. I visited nearly all of my sections. They had been rolling steadily for more than twenty-four hours. No less than four of the sections had had men killed the first...
...Order totters, as they sweep...
...English poetry--the tradition of Spenser and Shakespere--as Mr. Norris accepts the lesser, but accepts it freely and boldly, as if born to the purple. In "The Question" one is struck first of all by the individuality and evocative quality of the diction, then by the sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition throughout. If in Mr. Norris I find sentiment, fancy, wit--in the older sense--in Mr. Hillyer I find, above all, passion and imagination...