Word: nick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruins evened the count yesterday in edging the Crimson nine 1-0 in a 14 inning mound duel at Providence. As Tom Healey was hurling his best game of the year in allowing Brown seven scattered safeties, the Mitchell batters were only able to nick Vin Devaney for three hits...
...surprise the gigantic hydroelectric Tremp station, before the Leftists should make again their standard move of dynamiting a big dam rather than let it be captured. In a panting, breathless five-mile drive, Rightists under General José Moscardó got possession of Tremp in time's nick, for otherwise the flood of water released would have swept away whole villages, drowned thousands in 247,000,000 cubic feet of water...
Long Haul tells the story of Nick and Paul Benay, who picked up loads of freight in Oakland, Calif., hauled them to Los Angeles, fighting sleep, thieving agents, collectors who tried to seize their truck because they were behind in their payments. When they were paid $235 (the agent owed them $400), they bought a load of lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe...
Guards: Paul Connihan '39, Sam Fahr '40, Tudor Gardiner '39, Nick Mellen '39, Charles Snyder '39, Arthur Staniski '39, Tom Lacey '41, Don Lowry '41, Ted Hoague '41, Roger Lindsay '41, Chester McLaughlin '41, William Carlebach '41, Bill Underwood '41, Walter Riddle '40, Frank Donovan '39, Bill Brown '41, Howard Goodman...
...precisely where Stagehand got. With able Jockey Jack Westrope up, he was twelfth at the start, eleventh at the half-mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...