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Against a Tiger team bidding frantically to nip the Harvard hockey fortunes, the Varsity Pucksters in the Garden last night gained a 3-2 win in a game that might have gone either way by the slightest stroke of chance...
...have to drink water," cried a wit in the audience. "Take a nip out of that bottle Senter's got in his pocket." President Senter rose, slapped his pockets to demonstrate that no bottles were on his person...
Harvard won all but two first places, losing only the 100-yard free-style after a nip and tuck battle between Donald McKay of Harvard and Eloranta of the visitors, and the 200-yard breast stroke, in which A. Dell nosed out Bob Heskett, Harvard merman. The team captured every second place...
...pound race was a nip and tuck affair with Darcey coming from behind before the halfway mark to outdistance George E. Hall, II, 1L and win the affair...
...Lack of information, rumors in the bazaars, ineptitude, bribery; ram, lamb, sheep, mutton or goat twice a day; Somerset Maugham's rains, almost freezing temperature; fleas, lice, dirt; panhandling natives, lepers; a disquieting quietude; camels with halitosis, refractory mules, screaming hyenas, geese which hiss and nip at one's legs, then chortle...