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Word: dobbins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working Committee. In Peterborough, Ont., when the mayor asked an opinion on the ideal size of a group to study a proposed junior college project, Alderman Ross Dobbin volunteered: "Three people -one dead and one out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...nearly a breach of contract, but law professor William W. McCurdy got his Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCurdy and Horse Dobbin Meet; Mythical Animal Makes Brief Visit | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

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