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...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Hercules Takes On Full Relay Team for Beer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM SCORES 36-22 WIN OVER TIGER FIVE | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorson Wins Squash Title Over Ridder of Princeton | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bulldog Sea Dog | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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