Word: skeins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell is coached by Royner Green, who replaced Speed Wilson this season. The new mentor is a product of Middletown, Ohio, where his high school quintet captured 236 out of 280 games, including a skein of 43 consecutive victories...
...last meeting of this term, the Varsity "A" squash team yesterday afternoon lost a Massachusetts Squash Racquets League match in dropping a close 3 to 2 decision to the Newton Squash and Tennis Club. The defeat snapped a Crimson four week winning skein marred only by a loss to the Union Boat Club just before the holidays, but the racquetmen remain undefeated in Intercollegiate competition...
...Skein On Block...
...took time and patience to knit the skein of British colonial expansion into a tight empire, but the weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor Government tried to straighten the threads, its fingers caught in the old, hard knots. Last week autocratic sultans and old-line Tories alike were denouncing the British Government for high-handed imperialism in Malaya. British efforts to increase Malayan self-government had resulted in a terrible tangle...
...Chicago and Detroit workers knew what they were striking about, they knew more than the public. Newsmen, trying to thread through a tangled skein of fact, discovered that four unions claimed jurisdiction over the mechanics, that three had invoked a National Media tion Board election, the other an NMB mediator. Almost lost in the tangle was a rejected company wage offer which would hardly remind most onlookers of the sweatshop-as much pay for a peacetime 40-hour week as for a wartime 48-hour week, plus an average increase of about 10% to boot...