Word: nip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jawed, gimlet-eyed, Professor Berdan always marches into class with a huge armful of books. Flinging them down, he scrawls an almost unintelligible message on the blackboard (e.g., "Vivify by range of appeal"), then proceeds, with illustrations and gestures, to make his meaning clear to the dullest students. To nip stilted, labored styles in the bud, he opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with a load...
...Ulen will probably toss in a stronger medley than he did against Dartmouth because a Harvard win in this event tomorrow is not impossible. A trio composed of Bill Drucker, Bob White, and Art Bosworth might nip the Tigers and give the Ulenmen a strangle hold on the meet...
...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...
...acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred is for the most part just another sorry comedy about Hollywood...
...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...