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...class marched to the field with a band and sang and cheered, which put the finishing touches on the team. Saturday was a perfect day for a game. "Dick" Lewis led the team onto the field and soon the game began. After the kick-off it was nip and tuck for a while, but we soon were under way and carried the ball from our own forty-yard line for a touchdown. After we had scored once, the game was ours despite the cries of "Now for dear old Yale." We scored again in the second half, and the game...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...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 »

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