Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proverbial width of the Wheaties flake, the varsity wrestling team won a well-earned 16 to 13 match from Cornell before a crowd of 800 at the Blockhouse last Saturday. Bob Claflin took down Cornell's Gardner Reynolds in the last two seconds of the 175-pound class bout to provide the deciding three points for the Crimson...
Cautiously Vag started to cross Massachusetts Avenue, then with an air of bravado, he dodged a taxi. A flake of snow hit, him in the eye. Direct hit, he said to himself, and though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that...
...basis of its victory last week over the only common opponent, Holy Cross, the Varsity has been installed as the favorite by the breadth of a wheatie flake. The Cross moved at will against Dartmouth between the 10-yard stripes, but was held to a scoreless...
...Flake, Henry Awards...
...Caldwell guessed that part of the charge may be produced "at the birth of the snow crystals in the upper atmosphere," when "tiny water droplets'' combine to form a flake with a smaller total surface than that of the separate drops and hence a higher potential. As the flakes swirl downward they presumably pick up more electrons...