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Word: nails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Woman Behind the Man | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...Lack of calcium produces "fear of the dark, nail biting, gossiping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garbo's Gayelord | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...know what kind of pace you maintain in the pursuance of your journalistic activities, but it must be killing. Anyway, as far as reporting alone goes, this time I'd say you have not only hit the nail on the head, but that it's been driven clear through the wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

With the two teams battling tooth and nail, the lead see-sawed back and forth in the third quarter until timely field goals by Hennessey and Bixler put the Crimson Freshmen out in front with a lead that they didn't relinquish for the rest of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Basketball Team Beats Northeastern 67 60 | 12/18/1941 | See Source »

When Mrs. Ross went to interview the 99-year-old sage of Baker, Ore., she was introduced: "Papa, here's Nancy Ross come to see you from New York. Not Betsy, but her niece." The old man took one look at her nail polish and said: "Terrible wounded in every finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pioneer People | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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