Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...
Displaying some of the best basketball they have shown all season, the Freshman courtmen lost a nip-and-tuck encounter to a strong Dean Academy quintet by a scant two-point margin. 29 to 27, yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...
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...
...show up much more. "Never heard an argument in favor of confetti," said Rev. F. L. H. Millard of St. John-the-Evangelist, North Brixton, London. It was all right, he thought, to throw real flowers (an old village custom), because young ladies liked to pick them up to tuck under their pillows, and old ladies could press them in books...
...Gallitos (the cockerels)-George R. ("Tuck") Johnson, 30, Robert Shippe, 20, and their three young companions-are amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...