Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story has been told innumerable times of how the Indians can never break the thirty-year streak of Soldiers Field defeats and that, as superior as they may appear before the gun, the jinx will again return to black cat them. But this spring the most loyal Cambridge prophets are wary of the mounting liabilities their favorites must overcome...
Attempting to break the three-year Tufts wining streak, the Crimson nine will take the diamond this afternoon in the shade of the Soldier's Field Stadium for the first of a home-and-borne, two game series against the Jumbos. The greatly improved home forces are rated a good bet to hobble the Elephants...
...Varsity lacrosse team will try to break its six game losing streak suffered on enemy fields, in its first home game of the season against M.I.T. this afternoon on Soldiers Field. On the adjoining field the Yardlings will attempt to even their record at the expense of the Tech Freshmen...
Last week, this collection of oldtimers and newcomers had already won eleven consecutive games-a better spring showing than any other big-league team. But in their home park their winning streak ended. They lost all three games to the Yankees: 7-6, 3-2, 3-0. Undaunted, Dodger fans were convinced that they will turn the tables next October, when (as & if) the Dodgers meet the Yankees in the World Series...
...civilian crew fired only their machine guns. Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks of the smaller tank...