Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better goalies in New England, and for a number of good Bruin linemen, among them two fast-skating Canadian--sophomores Johnny Casey and Tony Malo. Last year as freshmen, these two men had a big part in a 5 to 4 win that stopped a seven-game victory streak of the '51 Yardlings...
...streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...years the Bruins have been unable to stop any Crimson eleven, but Brown now sports a six game winning streak which every man on the Bruin eleven is determined to increase this afternoon. Injuries have just about disappeared on the Brown team and every first string squad member is in top shape for the skirmish with the exception of Captain Norm lacuelo, who has been out all season with a torn knee ligament. Quarterback Ed Finn and end Ted Hendrick have been named by Coach Engle as the game co-captains for today's tussle...
Notre Dame's fancy football team, on a 24-game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure...