Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Audacious Horse Trading. Still, there is a hard streak of practicality in Conrad Hilton. The son of a successful merchant in San Antonio, N. Mex., he put down his entire savings of $5,000 in 1919 to buy his first hotel, the bustling Mobley in oil-rich Cisco, Texas. He managed to put together a small chain in Texas before the Depression wiped him out, bounced back with shrewd and often audacious horse trading to collect a lineup of prestigious hotels. His first major move was to acquire the high-priced Town House in Los Angeles, but he really broke...
...Crimson crew is a definite under-dog as it trains for the 98th renewal of the Harvard-Yale Regatta which will be run this Saturday on the Thames. Last year, with five sophomores in their varsity heavyweight boat, the Elis broke a three year Crimson winning streak...
...example, a boy with a strong streak of stubbornness has a greater than average chance of becoming a delinquent if his father is an alcoholic and is unacceptable for emulation; this same stubborn youngster, however, would not necessarily be as likely to become a delinquent if his father were not a drinker...
M.I.T. rowed as a guest in every contest except the varsity race, and the Engineer's four-foot victory over the Crimson JV's kept the lightweights from attaining a clean sweep in Saturday's regatta. The freshman lightweights kept their victory streak alive with a two-length win over M.I.T...
Throughout most of the singles matches it seemed as if the Crimson might break the Tigers' 31-match winning streak, but when two Princeton players rallied to pull out their matches, the door shut on the varsity's hopes...