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Word: tucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue-bellies Defeated 3 to 0 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Married. Angier Biddle Duke, 24, sportsman tobacco heir and nephew of U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.; and Mrs. Margaret Screven White Tuck, 34, Tuxedo Park socialite; a few hours after she secured a divorce from Captain Alexander J. M. Tuck; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS FIGHT SCORELESS DEADLOCK WITH BROWN ON WET FIELD | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLT WAGNER'S EIGHT NIPS CURWEN'S IN PHOTO FINISH | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLT WAGNER'S EIGHT NIPS CURWEN'S IN PHOTO FINISH | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

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