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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Breaking Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Dyke Benjamin will carry the varsity's hopes in the mile, where he will be facing the Elis' Jim Wade, who turned in a 4:15.2 effort last week. Jed Fitzgerald and Fred Howard could make the event a sweep for the Crimson. If Yale coach Bob Giegengack decides to run his ace Tommy Carroll in the mile, however, the race should turn into a sensational two-man battle between the smooth-striding Carroll and Benjamin...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Track Team Will Face Strongest Yale Squad in Years | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

...disappointed Spring Weekend crowd of Tigers and dates saw the undefeated Crimson sweep the first six singles and two of the next four to clinch both the nine-match Eastern Intercollegiate League and the fifteen-match Big Three contests before the doubles play had even begun. The varsity won three of five doubles to make the final Big Three score...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Team Beats Tigers, 8-1; Weld Takes Win Over Brechner | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Overlooked behind winner Carl Shine of Penn in the shot put was the Crimson's Hank Abbot, (pictured above, right), who broke up a possible one-two Quaker sweep by throwing the 16-1b. ball 52 ft., 3 in. for a new University record. John Bronstein, Stan Doten, and John deKiewiet took ten discus points...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Squad Beats Penn, Cornell By Large Margins in Triangulars | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...sweep for the Crimson is a distinct possibility in the discus. John Bronstein, Doten, and John de Kiewiet all have done better than the 131 ft., 3 in. heave credited to their nearest competitor, Pete Smith of Penn. The same deKiewiet is favored in the high jump, though he will be pressed by Penn's Andy Wohlgemuth...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Varsity to Face Penn, Cornell In Rugged Triangular Meet Tomorrow | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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