Word: fluke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That neither of these feats was a fluke was later demonstrated. Two other 60-yard processions were staged, and the most outstanding break capitalization was on the last touchdown. Torh Macdonald intercepted a pass on the 47-yard stripe and before he had taken two steps a phalanx of Harvard blockers had formed. Those tacklers who weren't blocked out he easily eluded and crossed the goal standing...
...without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north of the Delaware Capes though a primeval urge drives them still to run to Peconic in millions from their deep winter beds off Hatteras; that a flounder's eyes are on the right of his whale-smashed face, a fluke's on the left; that a hooked flounder will often jump like a trout; that muddying the bottom will bring flounders and flukes from fathoms around; that the bonefish grows up from its larval stage by growing more than 50% smaller until it assumes its adult shape...
...services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting, and to overcome the possibility of a fluke on their first try, they are going to choose five more oldsters to repeat the process during the five succeeding months before reporting final results to the waiting world...
...seems to be the safest assumption to go on. We'll just figure that they're due to get a lot better before competition starts. Bill Schmidt ran a lot of good races last year. That he was beaten this year can be attributed only to some sort of fluke. Maybe the track was so slippery that he didn't dare to run his fastest. And the same seems to be the case with Bill O'Connor and Al Hanlon who were beaten by Jim Lightbody Fresh runner (fresh is against Crimson form, but we're sore at him. What...
...Japanese Premier who was able by an amazing fluke to attend his own solemn Buddhist funeral and admire the hundreds of wreaths prominent persons had sent to be piled around his coffin was Admiral Keisuke Okada (TIME, March 9). Japanese Army youngsters thought they were killing Premier Okada when they were actually killing his brother-in-law, a Japanese Samurai who bravely pretended to be the Premier...