Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts team has defeated Harvard since the series between the two teams was renewed in 1957. Therefore, the Redmen are out to get the Crimson. They feel that this year's team has the manpower to end the Amherst school's losing streak...
Quarterback Bassett will direct the team as it seeks to extend its five game winning streak, Bill Taylor, second team All-Ivy last year, will be at right half, and should provide some exciting running and maybe even a pass now and then...
That was in 1939. Recalling the phone conversation in later years, Frankfurter said: "You know, he was given to teasing. Some people said that it was an innocently sadistic streak in him. He just had to have an outlet for fun." Behind his teasing, Roosevelt had reasons for hesitations about Frankfurter. For geographical balance, Roosevelt had wanted to name a man from the West or Midwest. Roosevelt well knew that he would stir up a storm by naming a foreign-born Jew with a well-deserved reputation as a radical advocate of liberal causes. But Frankfurter's prestige among...
...powers made him enormously influential in the closed-door conferences that precede the court's decisions. Another great jurist. Learned Hand, once called him "the most important single figure in our whole judicial system." Although he could be a profoundly kind and considerate man. Frankfurter had a waspish streak of intellectual impatience, and he sometimes jabbed lawyers, and even fellow Justices, with sharp-edged remarks or questions designed to make them get to the point. But no one could doubt his deep devotion to the law. A Harvard colleague once said to him chidingly: "You take law awfully seriously...
Leading the rubber planters in the difficult transition is Sir John Hay. 74. who is known in Malaya as a hard Scot with a soft streak. The last of the colonial tuan besars (big sirs). Sir John has been a dominant figure in the rubber world for almost half a century. The eleven plantations of his Guthrie Estates Agency Ltd.. totaling 200.000 acres, are the most advanced in Malaya...