Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McKittrick, Henry Foster, Phil Emerson, and Steve Mead, the four-lowest-ranking members of the Varsity squad, accounted for the team's entire score. The squad entered the Army match with a six-game winning streak...
...Gardon Bill Barelay's team will have a chance to make those two records two-one and one-two. To do that though, they will have to upset a Tiger squad that has an eight and four overall record, and that is flushed with a five-in-a-row streak of wins, all over better-than-average opposition...
Riding the crest of a five-genie winning streak, Winthrop's quintet will seek to preserve its margin in the House court loop when play picks up a week from tomorrow. "There will be plenty of hot basketball before the end of the season in March," Samborski predicted, with Dunster, Eliot, and Dudley all sporting top squads...
...Brown swimming team which is strong in the dash and breaststroke, but which promises little opposition in the other events, will take to the water in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight in an attempt to snap the Varsity's two-meet winning streak. The Freshmen of the two colleges will open the evening's proceedings at 7:30 o'clock, while the main event is set for 8:30 o'clock...
Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...