Word: dubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Procter gave the money for this research clinic three years ago. Hence to his fellow Cincinnatians, who perhaps because of their community's nickname ("Queen City") like to dub their chief citizens "Knights," he became a knight hospitaler. Another knight hospitaler is Col. Procter's father's and grandfather's partner in the Procter & Gamble candle and soap business, James Norris Gamble, 95, who still lives in Cincinnati and who has given $1,500,000 to Cincinnati's Christ Hospital (TIME...
...Stout brought out of his sleeve a plane "that the public wants to buy"-a small two-seater monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship...