Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he faced the Great Queen, his grandmother, and she demanded that his newborn second son be given as his first name "Albert." Victoria had tried to get the future King Edward VIII christened with Albert as his first name, and the future King George V had managed to tuck it in second, but after the way Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines even made him "King Albert" upon the abdication of Edward VIII). Since it happens...
Continuing their nip-and-tuck struggle for second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate league the Varsity basketball team bounced back from a defeat by Dartmouth to conquer a fighting Princeton five 36-22 at the Indoor Athletic Building last Saturday evening...
...tuck fight, in which the last point of the last game could have thrown victory one way or another, Dorson nosed out Bernard Ridder of Princeton...
...made him sick, but never thoughts of home. He has not forgotten the name of a single one of his ships, or where they took him-the Mediterranean, the Pacific, the Bering-Sea, the South Seas-and every ship, cruise and station gave him an anecdote-souvenir to tuck away in his sea chest...
Scientists have induced a sort of frozen trance in chickens, rabbits, partridges and sea lions by suddenly forcing them into unnatural positions. Many a hunter has watched bird-dog trainers tuck a pigeon's head under its wing, plant it for the dogs to find. Dr. Thoma now believes that this state is probably not hypnosis at all. but a form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that...