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...Philadelphia, trying to stretch the second-best current winning streak in the U. S. to 13 games in a row, Princeton got past Pennsylvania's 10-yd. line five times, past its goal-line never. Penn's touchdown, on Quarterback Lew Elverson's 57-yd. run before the game was ten minutes old, made the score the same as that of Princeton's last defeat-by Yale...
...threats of court action to force him in, John Milton Nichols declaimed: "I will be in the banking business long after you fellows have gone home, and you will go with the recollection that there was one banker that did not have a yellow streak all the way from his heels to the top of his head." For not putting FDIC signs on his tellers' windows the Government threatened to fine Banker Nichols $100 per day per window. Promptly, Banker Nichols threatened to close all but one window. In an expansive mood, he once began a letter to Comptroller...
...Pittsburgh Pirates: 7-to-4; a baseball game against the New York Giants, ending at 15 games the winning streak that climaxed the spurt that carried the Giants from fifth place on July 15 to first in the National League last week; in Pittsburgh...
...book was notable for its blunt and sometimes angry descriptions of the consequences of bad administration on the natives, as well as for its account of some of the extraordinary ritual dances that Gorer witnessed. It contained a few passages on native magic that suggested the author possessed a streak of mysticism that he had difficulty in communicating...
Behind Ed Ingalls the Crimson will be seeking to smash the Holy Cross undefeated record in nine games and to stretch its own winning streak...