Word: fluke
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...Crimson, which caglly allowed Oregon to expend its energy near the middle of the field, but as soon as its goal was threatened, summoned enough resources to repulse the Westerners. Oregon rooters, however, claimed their team had decisively outplayed the Easterners and had only lost by a fluke...
Finally, Yale had its day. There's a new event in swimming this year. Instead of the three-stroke medley relay, they have a four-stroke one, with both the butterfly and breast strokes. So Yale set the record in it. It wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...
Bill Thompson, Al Gordon, Bill Gillen, Lawrence Jacquith, Henry Brown, John Demos, and Howard Katz finished in this order behind Benjamin and Schlaeppi. B.U.'s vaunted threat in Warren Tyler and Henry Dionisio, turned out to be a fluke when they finished tenth and 11th, respectively...
...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...