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...Exeters Nip Tracksters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...YORK, Feb. 9--With both teams displaying a brand of sloppy, erratic ball, Columbia forged ahead in the second half of its game with Harvard last night in the Northeast tournament to whip the Crimson 54-43. The game went nip and tuck through the first half with the visiting Harvards holding a two point edge at the whistle...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON.) | Title: Hoopsters Lose to Columbia 54 to 43 | 2/10/1943 | See Source »

...nip-and-tuck battle all the way, the game looked like a tie up until the last few minutes of the game, when Captain Irv Schmid put a fine shot into the corner of the Harvard goal to clinch the game for Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS SUFFER FIRST DEFEAT; JAYVEE ELEVEN BOWS TO BLUE | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gifts of Bananas | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AUSTRALIA: No Jap Stands Idle | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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