Word: skein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with most of the lineup attack and immensely improved by a year of varsity experience the Bruins present what is rated as the second best eleven in New England. The men from Providence have rolled up some 2,400 yards in their first seven games, and boast a winning skein of six straight...
...government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
...similar vision came to Merton during a Mass in 1940 at Havana: "It was so intangible, and yet it struck me like a thunderclap ... It disarmed all images, all metaphors, and cut through the whole skein of species and phantasms with which we naturally do our thinking ... [It was] far above and beyond the level of any desire or any appetite ... It left a breathless joy and a clean peace and happiness that stayed for hours, and it was something I have never forgotten...
...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...
Despite the Varsity's current skein of nine victories in the ten matches since the early southern tour, the team will definitely be the underdog. The Blue squad is stocked with nationally-ranked tournament players, who appear on paper far superior to what the Crimson can offer...