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Word: streaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lightweights will also have to beat Navy to cop their fourth straight Joseph Wright Trophy. The lightweights' only loss this year was to the Middies, who broke the Crimson's 32 victory streak at the same time...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: Crimson Lightweights Seek Sprints Victory | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Navy will be the favorite, but, according to Coach K.C. Chase, there are six crews "which could finish within a length of each other." Chase predicts a "terrific scramble" in the sprints, and if the Crimson can come out on top, it will drown the memory of its streak-breaking loss to Navy earlier this spring...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: Crimson Lightweights Seek Sprints Victory | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...White House office room, their gaze fastened upon a television screen. Like millions of Americans in millions of other homes, they held their breath, crossed their fingers and prayed as they watched the Redstone rocket belch flame on its Cape Canaveral firing pad, lift off with maddening slowness, then streak magnificently southward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: It's a Success | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

MICKEY MANTLE was off to his best spring since 1956-when he led the American League in batting, home runs and RBIs. He ran up a 16-game hitting streak, was batting a lusty .329, and his nine home runs and 24 RBIs topped both leagues. He had personally accounted for seven of the Yankees' thirteen victories. Against the Detroit Tigers, Mantle hit a lefthanded homer to tie the score in the eighth inning; he hit a righthanded homer to win the game in the tenth. Against Cleveland, he drove in the winning run with a seventh-inning triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Familiar Faces | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Harvard will be out for its fourth consecutive victory in the Goldthwait Cup competition and its third since Navy stopped the lightweights streak at 32 earlier this season. But Crimson coach K.O. Chase is not radiating confidence about Saturday's race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Lightweights Face Princeton, Yale | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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