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Last week, this collection of oldtimers and newcomers had already won eleven consecutive games-a better spring showing than any other big-league team. But in their home park their winning streak ended. They lost all three games to the Yankees: 7-6, 3-2, 3-0. Undaunted, Dodger fans were convinced that they will turn the tables next October, when (as & if) the Dodgers meet the Yankees in the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball of 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...civilian crew fired only their machine guns. Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks of the smaller tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: M3 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...enough, despite recent Hays' office laxity, all the mothers are married. So the plot centers about the very unexciting career of their father (Claude Rains), an orchestra conductor who gets neither sympathy nor symphonies until after the old homestead has been sold to the wreckers. Then he hits a streak of luck, conducts a poorly recorded concert, regains the old homestead, and leaves everybody happy--at least everybody on the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/25/1941 | See Source »

...their evening's encounter with the B. U. Yearlings last night, the '44 sextal came off with an 8 to 2 victory to continue their winning streak. The Varsity, in an unofficial encounter with the Junior Olympics, dropped their game by the reverse score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING SIX STOPS B. U., 8-2 | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

...hockey team meets Princeton in a return engagement at the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink in New Jersey. At present the Tigers are leading the league with one goal wins over Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, and there seems little chance of stopping Dick Vaughan's men from running their streak further...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Quadrangular League Standings | 2/15/1941 | See Source »

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