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...Crimson basketball team will go after its fourth straight win of the season tonight when it opposes Tufts in the I.A.B. at 9 p.m. If Coach Floyd Wilson's five can win, the Crimson will have posted its longest early-season skein of victories since 1945, when the team won the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team To Oppose Tufts At I.A.B. Tonight | 12/15/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wins, 8-1, Over Weak Penn In Squash Match | 2/12/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Berlin: An Abnormal Island Floating Above A Red Sea | 2/8/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By L.k. Sronson, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Elegant Experiment | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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