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...Take It With You. In Milwaukee, 54-year-old Walter Estes broke into a bar, leaving the rear window open for a getaway, took $864 from the storeroom, paused for a nip, was found next morning fast asleep on the barroom floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...valuable U.S. farm crop. Since the first of the year, Europe's freeze, which ruined the olive-oil crop, has sent the oily soy soaring nearly $1 a bushel to the season's high of $3.42 per bushel. While other farm commodities did poorly, the soy did nip-ups for happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate for oils and livestock meal. A trader who put up $180 at Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Soaring Soy | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...relay team turned in its best performance of the year to set a Harvard record of 3:25.4 and finish third behind Yale (3:23.1) and Ohio State (3:24.5). A 49.9 final leg by Ohio State's Al Wiggins just managed to nip the Crimson for second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tired Varsity Swim Team Scores Fifteen Points During NCAA Meet | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...final minutes, however, the Yardlings suddenly came alive and the game became a nip and tuck affair. The lead switched hands several times but the team from Hanover came out on top. Good foul shooting by the Indians thwarted a last-second drive by the Harvard freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Narrowly Defeat Yardling Five | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

Manhattan, showing superior depth, racked up enough second and third places to nip favored Villanova, 36 to 34, in the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manhattan Wins IC4A Meet | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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