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...Tufts got another unearned marker when Raphael drew a base on balls, got to second on Johns' error, took third on a passed ball, and scored on a third slip in the field by the Crimson captain. Lupe Lupien turned a pop bunt into a sparkling double play to nip the rally before any further damage could be done...
Something must be done, therefore, to nip the expansion of tutorial specialization before it distorts President Lowell's "mirror" any more. One possible solution would be the shuffling around of all the tutors now living in Houses so as to produce a more nearly rounded tutorial staff in each House. If this plan is objectionable on the ground that tutors, like baseball players, don't ordinarily like to leave their home club, then some other solution must be found. This might amount to filling vacancies which may occur from now on with tutors in fields not well-represented...
...half lengths ahead of the Bellboy seconds, the Eliot Jayvees crossed in 8:21. Kirkland and Winthrop fought it out in an uneven sprint at the finish, the Puritans failing to nip their rivals in time and crossing in a dead heat for third place...
...about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence. . . . For one thing, you may go in for corset lacing. Front lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from...
Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...