Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Blaik's five-year record shows 32 wins, three ties, and six defeats in 41 games. Altogether the Greenmen have tallied 1173 points to the opposition's 236. In their last unbeaten stretch, through their last 19 games, then scores are 525 to opponents' 92. "Sufnny we don't hear more about...
...August 20 the Cubs were nine full games out of first place, with only an out-side chance of catching up with the league-leading Pirates-or the Giants and Reds who were threatening to take the lead. But as the Pirates faltered in the home stretch, the Cubs, well aware that there was about $5,000 in World Series swag for each player, kept inching ahead in one of the most exciting stretch finishes since 1908, when the National League race ended in a dead heat...
Just how one band "beats" another was not disclosed by leaders of either of the rival organizations, but Charles D. Duffy '39, Crimson manager, declared yesterday, "If anybody defeats us, they'll do it." A huge WELCOME and CORNELL will stretch diagonally across the field tomorrow if all goes well with Duffy and his men. Bob Lannigan '39, who succeeded Bob Snyder '38 as baton-twirler, has recovered from an open blister on his hand from which he was suffering during the Brown game, and is expected to spin a good game...
Since Monday, the squad has been scrimmaging as much as two hours at a stretch as Coach Skip Stahley drives it into condition for the coming encounter with the Exonians, to be played away...
...said Professor Rossby, which remain at fairly constant potential temperatures and specific humidities, are not considerably affected by winds. Their rates of drift are variable. Two types of tongues have been discovered: 1) dry, usually coming from the north; 2) wet, coming from the south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform...