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Word: tucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vive l' Amérique!", "Vive Monsieur le Président!" echoed in the cobbled streets as Mr. Hoover, accompanied S. Pinkney Tuck, today U. S. Embassy Counselor at Brussels and in Paris often host to the Duchess of Windsor when she was Mrs. Simpson, drove into Lille. Day before, Mr. Hoover had informed correspondents that he was off on a swing through Europe. Asked if he intended to gather political information firsthand, he replied, smiling: "I intend to look and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Looker & Listener | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...business of selling advertising time and space, 1937 was a nip & tuck race between a spring spurt and a fall recession. The spurt won by a few whiskers, and the year's $928,300,000 turnover was 5.7% ahead of the 1936 volume, according to tallies made public last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Time & Space | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...indoor baseball league yesterday, Kirkland House just squeezed out a victory over Winthrop by a 5-4 score. Battling nip and tuck over the whole five inning route, the Deacons sent the winning tally across in the final frame when the Puritan pitcher weakened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEACONS, RABBITS WIN IN INDOOR BASEBALL | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...Housatoute, there were about ten people cheering for Harvard in the 150-pound regatta; it was a heart-breaker, and even the rabidest Eli cheerers had to admit it would have been nip and tuck at the finish except for those crabs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Athletic Teams Sweep to Victory in Annual Derby Day Festival as Nine Upsets Green, Crews Beat Cornell | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Hercules Takes On Full Relay Team for Beer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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