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Continuing their nip-and-tuck struggle for second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate league the Varsity basketball team bounced back from a defeat by Dartmouth to conquer a fighting Princeton five 36-22 at the Indoor Athletic Building last Saturday evening...
...Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted today in European military circles, would be to attempt to nip off the small, German-speaking western tip of Czechoslovakia "restoring it to the Fatherland...
...trucks and buses now snort over a Chinese countryside in which the peasants are still too poor to buy even kerosene for their lamps, much less bus tickets. The buses are mainly for Chiang's soldiers and the trucks to rush food and supplies enabling the Government to nip floods and famines which have cursed China down the centuries. In times past Chinese have died not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands simply because their Government had no means to ship food over trackless wastes fast enough to let a province with a bumper crop feed...
...Wilber Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
Investigation revealed that they will not find the blue coats unprepared, however. It is reported that police will spare no efforts to nip the demonstration in the bud, and thus avoid any disturbance. Reached at his home at a late hour last night, Inspector Goulston of the Red Squad declined to comment...