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...shoulder. Last week, apparently less dismayed by Miss Marsh's experience than encouraged by the commotion it caused, Cinemactress Inez Courtney visited the track to hang an enormous wreath on Twenty Grand. Twenty Grand failed to oblige the photographers and pressagents by taking so much as a nip at Miss Courtney...
...competitive examination with all comers for their jobs. Civil service officials loudly protested the injustice of making a civil servant take another examination to hold a post for which he had already qualified. But Senator McKellar saw no reason why deserving Democrats should not be given at least a nip & tuck chance at 1,195 desirable government jobs...
Harvard sends a full-strength team into the Boston Garden tonight for the University Club's third annual New England intercollegiate Championships and sports authorities predict a nip and tuck contest for the team honors between the Crimson and the strong track squad that Dartmouth is sending to town. Besides the individual entries for the hurdles, dash, pole vault, and high jump, Coach Farrell has entered three relay teams...
Harvard's indoor interscholastic polo champions defeated the champion outdoor Princeton team 7 1-2 to 5 Saturday evening at the Commonwealth Armory in a nip and tuck tilt which was led by the Crimson trio at the end of almost every period...
Despite a stirring rally in the last five minutes of play, the Varsity basketball team was overcome 42-36 by Boston University in the latter's gym Saturday night. Throughout the first two periods the contest was nip and tuck, but toward the end of the third quarter the Terriers began to show their teeth, and succeeded in amassing a 42-28 lead...