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...game a test and others followed suit, John Bunn took his boys on a transcontinental tour during Christmas vacation, watched them beat every team they met-both with and without his own rules. In Manhattan, playing under the national rules, his team broke the two-year (43-game) winning streak of Long Island University, with much help from an ambidextrous young forward named Hank Luisetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Point a Minute | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Close Caller | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Balked of this prize despite a past winning streak of four times in succession, the Crimson Chess Club is pointing for the honor at the present time with a series of three victories in a row now to its credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CHESSMEN WIN H.Y.P.D. TOURNAMENT | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

...Freshman team is unpredictable. It is considered about average with no outstanding stars. It will be possible to tell a little more about its possibilities after watching it in action tonight. The Yardlings too have a great record to live up to, although Hodder's thirty game victory streak was once shattered last year. However they have defeated their Yale opponents for the past six years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERS FIRST FOE OF POWERFUL SEXTET AT ARENA | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...largest crowds of the House season turned out to see the game. The Leverett eleven went into the game on the crest of a four game streak, during which time they had not even been scored upon, and the Rabbits did not succumb without a struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Heads League After 7-0 Win | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

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