Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outrowing the Tech and Harvard University crews three and four lengths respectively, defeating the Crimson Freshmen by almost two lengths, and losing the jayvee race with only seven men rowing for the last half mile, three Cornell crews virtually made a clean sweep of the races on the Charles River Basin last Saturday...
...letter of Publisher Hecht (TIME, April 15) and to Professor Pitkin's prediction that the "talkies" will elevate cinema because "the ear is more moral than the eye." - ED. Favors Giants Sirs: I quote from TIME, April 15. "Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League." Certainly TIME'S baseball fans will agree that newspapers and experts all over the country (with the exception of Chicago) predict a tight race between the Giants and the Cubs- not a clean sweep for the latter. A list of these experts includes non-partisan baseball...
...mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall. President Washington's watchful eye saw the President's House begun (1792), the Capitol cornerstone laid (1793). But George Washington was dead before the Government took possession...
...struggle set for tomorrow will undoubtedly be a fierce one for the Technology crew is the best ever produced by the Engineers. These sweep-swingers, in their three length win over the Naval Academy, gained their first victory in nine years of rowing competition with the crews from Annapolis. No changes have been made in the seating of the Cardinal and Gray eight and the predommance of Sophomores and Juniors with the exclusion of former first string oarsmen predicts that Tech's opponents will find the going rough...
...five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig. The Chicago "Row" contains "Kiki" Cuyler, Hornsby, "Hack" Wilson, Riggs Stephenson. Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League. Chicago bettors are already willing to back their team in the 1929 World Series...