Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Fontanna of Caruthers, Calif., thrice winner of the Pacific coast championship. She drew 146.1 Ib. in ten 3-min periods. The race was nip-&-tuck; it was only by her decimal fraction that Mary Fontanna beat Gloria Miller of Pacific...
Only the last of Mr. Lang's suggestions appealed to his colleagues. They know that Australia is in a dreadful financial mess, but they are not ready yet for tur nip money. On the other hand they could see no harm in asking of John Bull the same generous terms he received from Uncle Sam. Later in the week Laborite James Henry Scullin, Prime Minister of all Australia, queried London...
...follows the suggestion of State Representative Niland, of East Boston, that Harvard be punished by having its buildings taxed, a plea in extenuation might be offered in the fact that Harvard's "goodies" have been conventionally represented for years in the Lampoon as elderly harridans not above snitching a nip of the marster's gin. Still, even this might not be regarded in some circles as so very extenuating after all. --Baltimore...
...lists threw final nominations over into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...
Except for the foregoing fatal boner the game was one of the better ones that has been played on Soldiers Field this season and certainly one of the more interesting to watch. It was a nip and nick affair that left doubt as to the outcome to the very end. In the last of the ninth Harvard made a bid to snatch the game out of the fire but with the tieing and winning runs on the bases Balsley tightened up and got both Bassett and Des Roches on easy pop-ups. Here the squeeze play might have worked...