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Word: skeins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before last Saturday Amherst boasted an undefeated string of 13 straight wins dating back to the 1948 season. Wesleyan's second half rally cut the skein, 4 to 2, but the Jeffs still boast one of the hotted offenses is the league...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: Soccer Team Faces Amherst Today | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

Doherty averaged 19.9 points a game last season as Pelham High School, carrying over a ten-game winning streak from the 1948-49 season, went on to run its skein to 30. It also won a district championship for the second straight year. Doherty has played varsity ball there for three seasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6-foot, 8-inch Basketball Star Likely Entrant Here | 5/16/1950 | See Source »

Last week, after the Justice Department had postponed the case for 18 months, Roger Slaughter went on trial, waived a jury. The Government produced only two witnesses and a skimpy skein of circumstantial evidence; the defense presented no witnesses and explained that the government's own testimony proved Slaughter was acting merely as a lawyer, not a lobbyist. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff briskly decided that the Government had no case, acquitted Roger Slaughter within about an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Feud | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Eliot's undefeated skein was almost marred in mid-February when it dropped a contest to Dunster by one point. But the game was later forfeited to the Elephants when it was disclosed that the Fansters had been using a ringer--a Lexington High goalie--in the nets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Six Faces Davenport in New Haven Today | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

...budding, winning-streak came to a rude half for the freshman squash team last night in Beverly, when the town's YMCA squad stopped the Crimson's undefeated skein at six games with at 3 to 2 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Squash Team Loses, 3-2, At Beverly, Ends Undefeated String | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

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