Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lupe Lupien continued his punch at bat three hits out of five times at bat, including a long home run in the seventh inning with a mate on base. Slim Curtiss in gaining his fourth win of the season allowed nine hits, but he was able to tighten in the pinches and prevent the visitors from scoring after the fifth inning...
...Senator Nye's bill passes Congress," he declared, "the administration of law in the next war will tend to tighten conscription over individual lives far more than over individual property...
...their aggressive Captain William Nash, the powerful Columbia outfit will be out to tighten their grip on the Intercollegiate League lead by capturing a fifth consecutive victory. Nash and his teammate, Clifford Wolff, accounted for 31 points in the New York game last Wednesday, and are expected to give the Feslermen plenty of trouble tomorrow night...
...public demonstrations Whistler Garth trains rigorously. He drinks only lukewarm water because anything colder will tighten the membranes of his mouth. He avoids drafts as scrupulously as if he were a sensitive high-priced singer, never brushes his teeth before whistling because, as he explains, the natural film-coating provides a necessary lubricant. A dentist tends his teeth each month or so, however, because "I couldn't whistle with false teeth, at least not a solo." Says he: "I never have known what to style myself. Perhaps I am a whistlist...
...early age. At 14 he was sent to school in Paris, tried to learn painting after hours. Deciding that there were enough painters, and that a writer's tools were less expensive, he took to wandering around the Mediterranean countries, "learning to drink wine and to tighten my belt from time to time." Other places seen: the Austro-Italian front (as a war-artist), South America (where he was lost in the Gran Chaco). At 36 he is married, settled at The Hague. One other novel of Fabricius', Lions Starve in Naples, has been published...