Word: flukes
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...Felicitous Marriage. All this was no small feat, coming as it did in a market for which no foreign manufacturer has ever made a generator of over 500,000 kw. And two days later Brown, Boveri proved it was no fluke by winning a Tennessee Valley Authority order for two huge 1,300,000-kw. generators. Despite the fact that the $28.5 million Swiss bid included $4 million in import duties, said the TVA, it was more than $10 million under any other. No less enthusiastic, American Electric President Donald C. Cook cheered the arrival of a "third manufacturer...
...Coop's administrators said they did not plan to increase their security arrangements. "We'll wait until next June's inventory to make sure this wasn't a fluke," said Morrill...
Last ear Brown opened the season with a fluke loss to Weseleyan, then held prachtically every opponent scoreless the rest of the way. (Princeton didn't even get of a short.) Harvard played a magnificent game, probably its best of the last three years, but lost, again in the rain, 2-0. Fans are sill taking about the play that saved the game: a scissors kick by halfback Pat Migliore of a shot that had already gone over the Brown goalie...
...This fluke, three minutes into the game, was not taken too seriously, but the Quakers put together a more authentic depressor eleven minutes later...
Tobias explained that the Spring flight and the promised summer flights had come about through a fluke in airline regulations. He declined to name the airline, other than to say it was a major line, saying he was afraid other charter groups would storm the airline for similar rates...