Word: flukes
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...making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...
Arky got into the gang almost on a fluke. Up for a manslaughter charge, he drew unexpected mercy from Judge Greet, who made him his chauffeur. To Arky's surprise, Judge Greet, admired civic leader, was also the local racket boss. Out of loyalty, Arky became his trusted agent...
...rowed a relatively poor race and lost to Princeton. Last week it rowed a very fine race and beat Navy and Penn. Tomorrow the Crimson oarsman compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprint championships and have a chance to show whether the loss to Princeton was a fluke or indeed, as tomorrow's seedings claim, Harvard is not the crew to beat in the East...
...name, shining on the marquee of Manhattan's Henry Miller's Theater, was there neither by producer's whim nor happy fluke. Against the weight of popular legend, she had climbed to her eminence the hard way, through years of professional trial & error, part success and part failure. New York City's critics had watched her rise to stardom in seven Broadway plays, had seen her eclipsed by lesser stars in six Hollywood pictures. But in Playwright F. Hugh Herbert's fresh and frothy comedy, The Moon Is Blue (TIME, March 19), Barbara had returned...
...than it is paying out. Although President Truman in January predicted a $2.7 billion deficit, the U.S. will probably end 1951's fiscal year in June with a cash surplus of possibly $5 billion. But this balanced budget-the third in 21 years-will be something of a fluke: tax collections are high and spending on rearmament has been slower than expected, and far less than actual appropriations. Estimated deficit (at current tax rates) for the fiscal year beginning next July: $13 billion...