Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper and by record, Princeton will be an overwhelming favorite not only to break Harvard's string of victories but to carry off the Crimson's Big Three Championship. To date the Tiger has suffered but a single loss to Cornell's highly-rated eleven...
This all-around unpleasant situation is actually futile, for it can only succeed in provoking some righteous indignation around the Union; aside from that it will have no effect. Such attacks can only break their force on the solid rock of undergraduate support of the team and its coaches. Those who are closest to the team, the students of the College, have only the highest praise for Dick Harlow and the spirit of the players he works with. With this spirit, it is not pure wishful thinking to expect that the rest of the season will show a decided improvement...
...twelve masked architects hissed their voodoo dance, word came that Ghost Hater Chalie Apted of the Yard Police was on his way to break up the Performance. A few reached for their bursar's cards, as others decided that discretion is the better part of valor,' as one of them trenchantly phrased...
...people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...
People who like their melodrama raw and in big gulps get their fill. Those who would swap a third-rate Hitchcock any night for a first-rate Laughton get an even break...