Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over a week Withington has been practicing on small fish until he feels comparatively sure of himself. Now the aquarium in his room is emptied except for two fish, one of two inches and the other close to four: the two-inch one is scheduled for eating some time today when the final touches will be given to the digestive system and the larger one is being preserved for tonight's performance...
Entries for the University Boxing Championships close this afternoon at 6 o'clock. The entry book is in the boxing room at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Cambridge meeting of the two squads, the Lious were not forced to reveal their new defense because the game never was close enough. The quick poison in their shots soon left the Fesler five trailing in their wake, and the game was not even close enough to satisfy Coach Osborne Cowles of Dartmouth, who scouted the contest. This time the Crimson are primed to make things tougher...
...have a very close connection with Harvard," admitted Gertrude Lawrence, star of "Susan and God," in a recent interview. "A Harvard man tried to teach me how to play the saxophone...
Competing in the slow Columbia pool, a cold-ridden Crimson squad defeated the New Yorkers Saturday in a meet that was not s close as the 41-34 score might indicate. The 1942 swimmers were given a severe drubbing by a crack Exeter team, 49 to 17, as the schoolboys took every first, four seconds, and both relays...