Word: nips
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...well-oiled Crimson field hockey machine crushed a hapless band of Elis in field hockey, 3 to 0, at Wheaton yesterday afternoon. The game was nip-and-tuck for two minutes, but then superior Harvard strategy began to tell. In the last period the Blue-bellies turned place blue with fright...
...acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred is for the most part just another sorry comedy about Hollywood...
...cold and muddy Business School field the Crimson soccer team fought a nip and tuck battle with the Brown eleven Saturday that ended in a scoreless tie in spite of the overtime period This deadlock, the second of the year, will put the Carrmen's record at four wins, two defeats and two ties when they meet the undefeated Yale team next week...
...last half mile down the course it was nip and tuck with the two leading eights. The Sophomores lost their advantage, regained a little of it, only to fall behind by about a half-deck length with only a hundred years remaining. Curwen's closing sprint failed by inches to catch the victorious Wagner, who stroked the jayvees most of last spring. When the two hit the finish line Wagner's oars were last in the water, and that added impetus was a winning margin...
Wilson's boatload nipped the surging Anderson shell by another fractional margin, and Bristol Hall's heavy, crossing fifth, edged out the first fifty to finish, stroked by Johnny Abbot, who had waged a nip and tuck battle down the course with Bobby Lincoln until a crab put his fifty out of the competition...