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Word: flukes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these factors of strong pitching, competent hitting, and improved work in the fields are not just an early-season fluke, the Crimson aggregation may yet surprise their League opponents and shame the experts...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Nine Seeks to Upset Experts' Pessimism | 4/8/1942 | See Source »

...Columbia and M. I. T. meets the team showed that its victory in the Pentagonals was no fluke. Yale, who has had only a mediocre showing thus far, is expected to go down before the more experienced Crimson swordsmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENTAGONAL SWORD VICTORS FAVORED TO BEAT ELI TODAY | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

...oarsmen are 6 foot 3 inch giants. So Harvard will have to row its hardest to overcome this powerful eight; furthermore, the Crimson is at a psychological disadvantage in that it is facing a group of men determined to show that last year's win was no fluke due to the weather, but a definite proof of rowing superiority...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: CREW TO MEET CORNELL | 5/24/1940 | See Source »

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