Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earlier contests, the feeling in the higher New Haven circles seems to be that the Elis will emerge victorious. On the other hand if Booth is either hors de combat or not up to his best form it would not be at all surprising to see the Crimson attack sweep on to its second victory in as many years...
Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...
...person who once paid $50,000 for a hundred shares of Auburn Motors would have been lucky to get $15,000 for his stock on October 29th. Goldman-Sachs' famed Blue Ridge investment trust which was to share in the entire sweep of U. S. prosperity was sold at $3 per share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began...
...attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power to technique...
...Harvard athletic teams have thus far scored a clean sweep in the games played with Dartmouth this weekend. The University harriers triumphed over their Big Green opponents by the decisive score of 20 to 36; the yearlings conquered Dartmouth 1933 by the even better count of 19 to 38; and the University soccer team defeated the Hanoverians by the score...