Word: skeins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the Crimson takes on a Princeton team which boasts six-game winning skein. The Tigers, led by National Intercollegiate Champion Roger Campbell, have not lost any men from the team which the Crimson barely beat last year 5-4. Princeton's number one, five, six, and seven players have been undefeated this year...
...acquaintance of the elevated train was one more enigma in the skein of enigma that is Berlin. Berlin offers a kind of excitement to be found nowhere else in Europe. Here, the individual is suppressed by the ruin, the streams of propaganda from both sides, and by the constant awareness that he is sitting on a powder...
...Haven, Conn., Doc. 7-Yale's freshman swimming team, with a record varsity, as impressive as the nationally renowned varsity, will place a 117 consecutive dual meet skein on the line against Hamden High School tomorrow...
...Asking nature the right question in the right way-or recognizing a theoretical pattern in a tangled skein of experimental data-often has the effect of introducing an element of beauty and elegance into the scientist's work. Do we not, on occasion, refer to a 'beautiful theory' and an 'elegant experiment'? A great experiment seems to us, somehow, something which could not have been done differently . . . Taking away something or adding something only detracts from it. In this respect, a beautiful experiment can surely be classed with a great work...
...this does not deny that the picture has its highpoints. Miss Gordon's father and his misadventures with the new telephone, for example, are well carried over from the play. But the continuous skein of leisurely memory is lost, and the plot seems threadbare without...