Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Harvard and Yale elevens face each other for the fifty-eighth time this afternoon, it is a foregone conclusion that the Stadium, barring some cataclysmic mishap, will be filled almost to overflowing...
Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...
Aside from that major mishap, things went along quite smoothly as Coach Harlow drove the boys through a strenuous 40 minute scrimmage session. No touchdowns were registered, so most of the afternoon's standout performers excelled on defense...
...Martin's front lawn, which forms a natural grandstand for the race in the valley below, the crowd watched the seven starters charge over the first jump, held its breath as they reached the third, known as the Union Memorial Fence.* After that dreaded obstacle was surmounted without mishap, a roar thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting...
...During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...