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Word: nibs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...have submitted to him in the morning's Udienze di Tabella, then prepares any speeches he may have to make. He jots down pencil notes which he later expands on the typewriter. When he is forced to use ink (he dislikes fountain pens), he uses a very fine nib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope's Day | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...less dominated by the big chains, and to which more than half of the 882 U.S. stations belong. Three weeks ago in Chicago a convention, attended by 200 station representatives, solemnly voted to make membership in NAB no requisite for membership in the National Independent Broadcasters association. Since then NIB membership has doubled. At Manhattan's Rodeo, Cowgirl Alice Greenough took a WOR mike along on a straightbucking broncho to describe her sensations to the radio audience. Alice's description was brief: "Ooph . . . ooph . . . ooph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battle Joined | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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