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...singles by George Chase, Walt Greeley and two wild pitches. Harvard, paced by John Canepa's triple with two on, got three runs in the third but the Purple came back with three in the fourth, two in the fifth, and one in the sixth, seventh, and eighth to tuck away the game. Bodgan walked four in the seventh and three in the eighth, forcing in the final Crimson tallies. ab r h po a e Canepa, 2b 2 0 1 5 4 0 Smith, (C); cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 Collins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusaders Defeat '53 Baseball Team, 10-7 | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

Never a man to make things easy for himself, Director Hitchcock has tried in Stage Fright to work within the discipline of a tricky story conceit: his heroine (Jane Wyman) plays romantic nip & tuck simultaneously with a suspected murderer (Richard Todd) and the Scotland Yard man (Michael Wilding) who is tracking him down. Hitchcock exploits the situation as much for chuckles as for chills. The result is an entertaining show, handsomely produced against a London background, studded with effective scenes and enlivened by an excellent cast that includes an uncannily young and beautiful Marlene Dietrich and able British Comedian Alistair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night of Reckoning | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...there is no rice, if there are no beans If there is no butter to spread on your bread, If you have no shirt to tuck in your jeans, Take hope! Adhemar dá jeito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Wonderful People | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Out of Babel | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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