Word: skein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riddled by injuries, the Crimson had lost three out of their last four games before yesterday's defeat, which upped Yale's winning skein to five. After enjoying early season success, Harvard found itself overwhelmed by injuries to key players during the second half of the campaign...
...Daily is seeking to break its 95 game losing skein in this annual rivalry between the two newspapers...
...first major funds were appropriated. From the start, opponents quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the Arkansas than to dam it. Yet the project is now three-fourths completed. Eventually, 17 locks and dams (the biggest named for Kerr) will create a 446-mile skein of lakes running clear down to the Mississippi near Yancopin, Ark., forming a barge channel nine feet deep and at least 150 feet wide...
Four-Way Plug-In. The Beatles, as Paul has been warning recently, "are not the four moptops any more." They are four iconoclastic, brass-hard, post-Christian, pragmatic realists. Some of this does break through Davies' skein of anecdotes. So does the curious relation among the Beatles. Film Director Richard Lester once described it as "the four-way multiple plug-in personality," in which each one is only a phase of a larger unit that has far more reality for them than any other human relationship they know...
Tribal lines, not national boundaries, make up the true map of Black Africa. The Congo's latent disorder stems more than anything else from its stubborn attempt to throw a skein of nationhood over no fewer than 200 tribes. Even tiny Dahomey numbers more than a dozen tribes within its borders. Worse for national unity, tribalism is growing almost everywhere as a cushion against the shocks of transition into the 20th century. In Africa's multiplying ghettos, tribal "unions" or associations flourish as a kind of foreign embassy in the city for dazed tribesmen from the country. When things...