Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League, the San Francisco Giants trounced the Cardinals, 6 to 3, to take a clean sweep of the three game series and first place in the league. The Los Angeles Dodgers, sparked by Don Demeter's two-run homer in the seventh inning, defeated Chicago's Clubs...
...House fencing tournament ended last night, Dunster House walked away with every first-place honor. Eric Rubsamen and Christopher Stone, both of Dunster, took first and second in epee to complete the 'Funsters' sweep...
...great, fanlike sweep of DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar that stretches for 9,000 miles across land and sea to guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will...
...Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must arise," says Dr. Benz, to sweep away the shibboleth that "a hall without a harmonium is a hall, but a hall with a harmonium is a church...
...varsity's Art Cahn will have to improve even to place. Tommy Carroll, the Yale sophomore who turned in a 1:54 leg in the two-mile relay three weeks ago, is a prohibitive favorite, and defending titlist Ed Slowik could give the Elis a one-two sweep...