Word: fluke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the game. Knowlton made it 3 to 1 when he drove in an accurate Johnson cross. The ball hit just inside the penalty area to the right of the goal and he grazed the left corner post with a hard, low shot. The fourth goal came on a fluke kick from Johnson which dribbled between the goalie's legs...
...Blues convincingly proved that last week's six-point victory over the Crimson at New Haven was no fluke. In both games, they had to overcome a first-quarter deficit, but after that were continually...
...foundation later took on other diseases. It set up typhus teams in both Manhattan's East Side and in Algeria, taught Egypt how it might free itself from schistosomiasis-a disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails. It built the $8.000,000 Peking Union Medical College ("We must create the Johns Hopkins of China!" cried one trustee), studied scarlet fever in Rumania, malaria in Nicaragua, undulant fever in France, oroya fever in Peru, dengue fever on Guam. It set up a yellow fever commission under General W. C. Gorgas, and one of its doctors-Wilbur A. Sawyer...
...defense has been particularly strong, except for the 46 to 13 Brown mistake. Against powerful Worcester Academy and Andover elevens, the freshmen kept the scores down to 13 to 0, and 14 to 0, respectively. A fluke safety gave the Dartmouth yearlings a tight 2 to 0 victory over the Yardlings two weeks...
...Told Every Little Star, In Egern on the Tegern See, The Song Is You, there is no want of melody. Hammerstein's book tells how two Swiss villagers-a father who writes songs and a daughter who sings them-go to Zurich and almost have a fluke success at the expense of professional theatrical people. The story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis King, Conrad Nagel-does little to enliven...