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Monday's loss to Boston College was the first Crimson defeat at the hands of a local rival in two years and broke a ten game winning skein against B.C., Northeastern, and Boston University. With this in mind, the still potent varsity should pulverize the Ephmen in tonight's 7:30 p.m. contest...
Except for a skein of flesh off which...
...Bristol board that the weaver follows at the loom. Formerly weavers took considerable latitude with colors and even design, but in transferring Lurgat's fanciful designs to tapestry, they are given no margin at all. Each color area bears a number that corresponds to a number on a skein of wool, not unlike the popular "by the numbers" painting kits; the method gives Lurgat complete control over the finished product...
...Glomus, Latin for a skein, because it is a tangle of nerve fibers and small blood vessels-plus caroticum, derived from the Greek for stupefy, because pressure on the neck arteries will produce stupor...
Three Harvard deans and a Master spun out an intricate skein of interwoven fact, figure, and comment yesterday on the College and its undergraduates; listening was a relaxed but fascinated 25th reunion contingent--a group large enough to fill the main floor of Lowell Lecture Hall to the last seat...