Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard should win the game by a comfortable margin and although the Providence team will send its ace, Sondheim, to the mound the Crimson batters, who are slowly recovering their lost batting eye, should nick him for enough runs to produce a victory...
Except for the foregoing fatal boner the game was one of the better ones that has been played on Soldiers Field this season and certainly one of the more interesting to watch. It was a nip and nick affair that left doubt as to the outcome to the very end. In the last of the ninth Harvard made a bid to snatch the game out of the fire but with the tieing and winning runs on the bases Balsley tightened up and got both Bassett and Des Roches on easy pop-ups. Here the squeeze play might have worked...
With the announcement last week that St. Nicholas magazine had been sold for an unnamed sum by the Century Co. to Scholastic Publishing Co. of Pittsburgh, oldtime "St. Nick" readers wondered if the pages that once delighted them had aged so that they lacked appeal for a more discriminating generation...
...Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...
...insulted by a burly civilian, who attempts to draw, only to have the fellow seize his wrist and threaten to break his sword. If it breaks, the Lieutenant knows that, according to military honor, he must commit suicide. Luckily for the Lieutenant, Author Schnitzler demolishes the civilian in the nick of time by a stroke of apoplexy...