Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Elis rolled through the Crimson 80 to 51 at the Arena last Saturday, they have been established as heavy favorites to repeat tonight. As an added incentive, their big man, Tony Lavelli, will be gunning for 24 points or so in order to nail second place in the national individual scoring parade...
...Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
Felton and teammate Bob Forsyth are expected to nail first and fourth (for a total of seven points) in the opening event of the meet, the 35-pound weight throw at Squadron A Armory early this afternoon. These points alone will probably be enough to put the Crimson into the first ten teams in the 42-college field. Three or four more will land Harvard in the first five leaders...
...Every nail in the surrealistic set has been driven home by 'Cliffe freshmen, and the actresses are all from the Class of 1951: Joan Rice, Henrietta Broyles, Martha Webb, and Gail Whitehead...
Before Williamson can be deported, however, the Justice Department will have to nail down the question of whether or not he is an alien. The Government says he was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. in 1913. Williamson's story is that he was born in San Francisco, where his birth records were destroyed in the great fire and earthquake...