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Hell & Heaven. The wreck of a country that is Spain today could use a few conquests - Gibraltar, probably a slice of French Morocco and Algeria, possibly a nip of Southern France - to divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
...only other Harvard race of the afternoon, the Jayvees also will have a nip and tuck battle with the Bengain. The Princeton second boat has kept close to its varsity all season and is out to avenge its defeat by six feet at the hands of the midshipmen two weeks...
...nip and tuck ball game on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon with neither team displaying any scoring punch, but the underdog Terrier nine from Boston University finally squeezed out an unearned run in the sixth inning to finish up on the winning end of a 1 to 0 count. In an informal game, the Yardling nine downed Newton High School...
...Yardling Stahleymen, who have dropped eight games and won seven, vindicated themselves by crushing Yale in the Payne Whitney gym. At the beginning of the game the two teams were playing a nip and tuck contest, but when "Skip" Stahley's plays began to click, the Crimson team forged ahead to end the half-time...
...once in 25 games and winner of the post-season National Collegiate A. A. tournament last year. But when Oregon's Webfeet tangled with the Blackbirds of Long Island University in the season's first big intersectional game at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Blackbirds nipped them in a nip-& tuck, 56-to-55 thriller...