Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like cats off an alley fence. Then, ten more times without a miss, Bowler McGeorge's pet two-finger ball socked sweetly into the 1-3. Intent on remembering the groove, Bowler McGeorge had not been watching the score. Like most bowlers, he was content to let his string of strikes run itself out before finding out where he stood. But watchful eyes among the 300 afternoon spectators in Cleveland's vast Lake Side Auditorium spotted what was going on, and the murmur and commotion aroused McGeorge to what he had worked up to. He had eleven strikes...
...almost all the CzechoSlovak loot could eventually have been acquired by "gentle pressure" without actual occupation. In moving into Czecho-Slovakia the Führer abandoned his previous policy of trying to create a string of ideological vassals (such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia showed signs of becoming), economically subservient but nominally independent...
Lowell's record is also characterized by consistency, for the Bellboys have a long string of seconds, thirds, and fourths to their credit. An interesting feature of the 1938-39 fall and winter House athletics is that the total number of points lost by defaults has shrunken appreciably from last year's figures. So far, 79 points have been lost by defaults as against 168 thus far in the 1937-38 season...
...Eastern Music Educators Association, the Glee Club, in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will give its annual concert at the Hotel Statler this evening. The singers will be accompanied by a string section, chosen from the Pierian Sodality of 1808 and the Wellesley Orchestra...
...must do this spring is to get the boys oriented into their positions. A lot of them will find themselves in entirely new places next fall." He plans to switch Torby Macdonald from wing to halfback. He definitely will not play Bill Coleman, of this year's second string, at guard, but will place him at center. Ernie Sargent will probably play blocking back instead of guard...