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Both games were hard-fought, nip-and-tuck affairs. Both went considerably over the seven-inning limit. Monday's softball game was won with a 4 to 2 score by virtue of a two-run outburst in the eleventh inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER WINS INTRAMURALS | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Tan Yanks | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable I had turned his carrot. No answer. Why, into a Pa's nip! was my response." "War," growled his son, "is an organized bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Dissenter | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Mary Martin, 69, and weather-beaten, died in Oakville, Ont. last December. Last week her will, filed for probate, disclosed that she left $71,700 in real estate, $17,686 in mortgages, $28,138 in jewels, $320,773 in stocks, $568,768 in cash. Dominion and provincial taxes will nip off between $300,000 and $400,000. The rest goes to charities (about $80,000), to friends & relatives (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: Up from Indiana | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...When the battle runs nip-&-tuck, "let Hitler have the headaches. Don't give them to yourself by unhygienic living. . . . Don't eat when you are tired, rest a while in a recumbent position. A day in bed on a light diet with the windows open and some light diverting reading will give relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: D-Day, H-Hour | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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