Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meantime, this Saturday the team must prove its shutout of Dartmouth Jan. 9 in the Pentagonal League opener was no fluke. The Indians and the Crimson meet in the rubber match of a three-game series at the Winter Carnival...
...just six-tenths off Gunder Hagg's record of 1945. Plainly discouraged, Landy said, "I've done as well as I can. I'm running for fun from now on. If I do the four-minute mile, it will be a fluke...
...will meet in freshman this year, with the possible exception of Exeter's Paul Martin, who can give him any trouble. He best Milton Street, the country's 11th ranking amateur, last week. Street will play him again today in order to prove his loss a fluke, but a victory over Street, fluke or not, is an achievement...
Unfortunately, some of the number work seemed a bit too hasty. July's saving actually was a bookkeeping fluke brought about by several happenstance facts. No payments had been made during the month toward either the Post Office deficit or the Civil Service Commission's retirement fund. Thus the "saving" was only a paper cutback of $500 million, much of which must be paid. The fiscal crisis could not be figured out of existence. He could solve it only by 1) slashing all Government spending, including defense, until outgo meets income, or 2) getting the ceiling lifted...
...Pope by Fluke. Rolfe's masterpiece is, first of all, his biography. Almost every event of his life, every least triumph and shame, is described in it somewhere as an event in the life of his hero, George Arthur Rose. It is also a story of the life he longed for. He longed, in a word, to be Pope, and Pope his hero becomes by a marvelous fluke of history that Rolfe manages to make almost credible-and supremely exciting...