Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret that Dartmouth is almost glad to see a few reverses go her way and take the pressure off her athletic policy. When the Indians were riding along a victory streak a few years ago, they spent so much time defending their team from pot shots of sports writers that there wasn't much time left to enjoy the wins. When the cycle (we are still speaking of a Bingham tricycle and not a Big Red motorcycle) happens to swing Harvard's way, it will be nice to have a few friends...
...Winning teams come in waves at Cornell as well as elsewhere," Cayuga fans claimed, "and we are having our first lucky streak since 1920. The idea of purely athletic scholarships at Cornell is groundless. The scholarship standard of athletes here is as high if not higher than that of the average undergraduate...
Minnesota's young Governor Stassen has a streak that his critics call stubbornness and that his friends call a farsighted awareness of the new needs of a new time. Last week the Governor demonstrated this streak. To the post of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen he appointed-over the protests of Republican politicians -tall, lean, black-haired young Joseph Ball, who has been a newspaperman for 13 of his 34 years...
...only touch football encounter yesterday, Adams House, despite the absence of its star Sophomore Paul Roche, beat Lowell House 30 to 24, extending its winning streak to three...
...with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak right...