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...winner of the post-season National Collegiate A. A. tournament last year. But when Oregon's Webfeet tangled with the Blackbirds of Long Island University in the season's first big intersectional game at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Blackbirds nipped them in a nip-& tuck, 56-to-55 thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bee's Blackbirds | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Devine tightened his grasp on the regular left end position over Gene Lovett by holding forth at that station all afternoon. And Club Peabody now rates a slight edge on Don Lowry in their nip-and-tuck scrap for the starting left guard assignment. Dick Pfister is his running mate at right guard...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: HELMAN PROMOTED TO SECOND TAILBACK JOB | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...books on a related group of subjects, and to each room would be appended stacks, open to anybody. A personable reference staff would be ready to help students at any time. And pervading the Center would be an air of informality. Comfortable chairs, lounge rooms available for discussions, a tuck shop--these are but a few of the conveniences--would make studying desirable instead of damnable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR UNDERGRADUATES | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

Vander Eb has looked very capable back at his old post as a blocker, and his promotion to the Red squad presages a spirited battle with Frazier Curtis for the first reserve blocking back slot. Another nip-and-tuck contest for starting honors Saturday is continuing between Don Lowry and Chub Peabody...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: RUMOR OF NEW JOB SPIKED BY HARLOW | 10/11/1939 | See Source »

...almost entirely economic, almost entirely bullish. Businessmen, confident that no South American nation would be actively involved, remembering the mints made in the last War, having experienced no real fighting except the Chaco War and revolts in Brazil, saw that their continent would be the world's tuck shop. South America would sell at hot prices all the raw materials which had lain fallow and unproductive in the past decade. War would wipe out with one black stroke all the hobbling economic nostrums of dictators-depreciated currencies, frozen gold stocks, exchange controls, restricted imports, excessive taxation. Effects on various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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