Word: straights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard baseball horde journeys to Medford today in an attempt to win from the Tufts forces its third straight game of the series. Tufts has had an edge on the Crimson cohorts for the past ten years, having dropped only three tilts since...
...thirsty plane flies in a straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident...
...solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important of all, there was in final readiness the last bit of pavement on the Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight miles long, 140 feet wide, leading from Nanking to Dr. Sun's new mausoleum. Therefore, China's most exalted morticians and highway contractors rested last week from their labors. Everything was in readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first...
...battle with the University baseball team on Fitton Field, Worcester, this afternoon, in what promises to be one of the season's hardest encounters. Last year Coach Barry's charges captured both contests of, the two-game series, and should make a strong bid to make it three straight today...
...Crimson diamond forces will travel to Providence tomorrow in an attempt to make it two straight from the Brown nine. The chauces are that W. H. MacHale '31 and Soudheim of the Bruins will have another chance to fight it out from the mound as they did in last Saturday's encounter which Harvard took...