Word: freak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard appeared certain of a win until Springfield's full-blooded Indian, Jack Patterson, bounced the tying goal off the stick of goalie Sid Clark. Clark was also the victim of another freak shot earlier in the game when a scuffle in front of the cage sent several mud pellets, one of which was the ball, flying into the goal...
...experiments was strongly contested by Von Mises, who claimed that if, in the card-reading experiments, cards and guesser happen to be in "mathematical" resonance," the subject will seem to be far outdoing chance in his correct calls. During a short period of experiments, he insisted, this "freak occurrence" has often appeared and has been mistakenly believed to be important...