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...only touch football encounter yesterday, Adams House, despite the absence of its star Sophomore Paul Roche, beat Lowell House 30 to 24, extending its winning streak to three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormitory Eleven Deadlocks Kirkland Team in 6-6 Tie | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Up Detroit | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...tropical heat. French warships lay in the big harbor of Fort-de-France. But island exports of rum, bananas, sugar, pineapples had all but stopped. A British fleet of unknown size patrolled the nearby waters-carefully avoiding the appearance of a blockade, making certain that French warships would not streak for home, watching for signs of a Nazi attempt to establish a submarine base on the island. Somewhere nearby, destroyers of the U.S. neutrality patrol also hovered watchfully. Thus quietly time passed on an American island now nominally ruled by the new totalitarian Government of France, which is in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Unwanted Island | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Satchel's feats are legion. In 1933 he stretched a winning streak to 21 games, pitched 62 consecutive scoreless innings. In 1936 he pitched five nine-inning games in one week, yielded three runs. In 1937 he hit .408 (lifetime average: .362). Last year he won 54 games, lost five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Satchelfoots | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, it was a terrific day. Not only was this the Dodgers' first no-hit, no-run victory since famed Nap Rucker turned the trick in 1908* but it was their ninth successive victory this season-an opening winning streak equaled only once before (New York Giants of 1918) in the history of modern major-league baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Modern Superbas | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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