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...Harvard is able to nip even Princeton in Friday's race, it will be not only a sensational win but one of the biggest upsets of the season. Princeton has practically the same team this year that beat the Crimson 26 to 29 last fall. The only man missing is Dave Little, son of the Master of Adams House, who is now a graduate student...
...effort to nip in the bud a threatening shortage of men trained in the theory and use of England's famous radiolocator, the University has authorized a new defense course on ultra-short wave technique, starting immediately, the Physics Department announced yesterday...
Springfield's soccer team came back in the third period Saturday afternoon to cut down a one-goal Crimson lead and to tie the Harvard booters 1-1 in a nip and tuck battle...
...years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish you would make every effort to nip any such tendency immediately...
...boys ashore soon found their way to Reykjavik's only cinema and saw Golden Boy. They went to the music halls and saw very proper classical shows. Despite tight restrictions on liquor sales, they managed to find a nip here & there. They wandered into shops and had a fine time trying to make the shopkeepers (who had learned the broad English words of the British) catch onto the American twang...