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...Crimson stickmen, who have built a three-game victory skein in the last two weeks, will face a mediocre Eli contingent. On scores with common opponents, the game would have to be rated even, a "pick-em" proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Lacrosse Teams Face Yale Here Tomorrow | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...tennis team will be here all week-end, playing Cornell today and Army Saturday. In action away the lacrosse team will try to break its Ivy loss skein at Dartmouth, and the lightweight crew will row against Princeton and Yale at New Haven for the Goldthwait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Action | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...ruggers started their win skein by shutting out the Richmond Rugby Club 3-0 April 3. Back John Dickinson got the only score of the match on a long dropkick in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrummers Post Winning Record In Tour of Dixie | 4/11/1966 | See Source »

Shophomores Dan Magraw and Phil Chase also looked good, winning the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard sprint, espectively. Bill Shrout returned to the 100-yard freestyle after spending a few meets as a sprinter and won easily. Neville Hayes continued his unbeaten skein his season in the 200-yard butterfly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Beat Brown in Romp; Win Nine Events | 2/10/1966 | See Source »

...some not. Crowds watched police meticulously remove kitchen utensils, brooms, linoleum and bedding from one tidy row house, with a vase of flowers in the window, in a "council housing estate" (public housing project) several miles east of Manchester. Last month police turned up a suitcase containing a scrambled skein of recording tapes in the checkroom of a Manchester railway station, played the tapes at a BBC studio. On them were eerie sounds not unlike the voice of a terrified child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Ghosts on the Moors | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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