Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkish Republic was holding its first census. From the first streak of dawn to the last shadow of dusk all citizens were ordered to remain within their doors; none might venture out unless with an official permit. All day long 50,000 census takers, accompanied by police and soldiers, counted heads, took names, ages, religions, professions, native languages spoken, examined for health and applied simple educational tests, while the suspicious populace, quietly submitting to the inquisition, wondered if all the counting of heads was to assist the taxgatherer in his unwelcome rounds...
Showing more consistent power than at any other time this fall, the Freshman soccer team defeated Bradford Durfee Textile School of Fall River, 3 to 2, Saturday on Soldiers Field, there-by breaking its losing streak...
...done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods of the college year, is saved in the end not by the pace which he has maintained but by the apparent agility with which he has greeted the opening gun. The opposite may happen equally well...
...Purple Winning Streak Temporary...
Bradley Polytechnic Institute brought a record of 25 straight victories (including the two-time championship of the "Little 19" of Illinois) to Urbana. The University of Illinois broke Bradley's winning streak...