Word: neb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging neb...
Rindlander. In Holdrege, Neb., when German P.O.W.s were served their first watermelons, one enthusiast ate his entire piece, rind...
...Bottom. Bill Jeffers was a product of this brawling frontier. His father, William, came over from Ireland's County Mayo in 1868 and, after laying his share of track, settled down to work as laborer for the U.P. in North Platte, Neb. There Bill Jeffers was born, in a tiny clapboard house that was usually crowded with railroad men, always swirled with argument (when all other topics were exhausted, they argued on ways & means of freeing Ireland). It was inevitable that Bill Jeffers should grow up to be 1) belligerent, 2) a railroad...
...defects, the chief of which was that Sitting Bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to Canada. But the Army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm. In the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized 8,567 ponies from baffled, friendly Indians, at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Agencies...
...This the Face? In Lincoln, Neb., an amorous aerial gunner noticed the name "Helen" and a phone number on the wall of a booth, dialed, was greeted with, "Hereafter save your nickels and buy war bonds." They Also Serve ... In Manhattan, Gristede Brothers, grocers, sent two boys with each pushcart load of orders - the extra one to stand guard over the butter...