Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byrns was not a great Speaker in the tradition of "Tsar" Reed, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and "Nick" Longworth. But the same big, warm heart which kept him from giving the unwieldy House the iron-fisted discipline it often needs made the onetime Tennessee farm boy one of the best-liked Speakers the House has ever had. Last week the nation's statesmen forgot his amiable, easy-going leadership, paid heartfelt tribute to his honest simplicity, blamed his death on the conscientious industry with which he strived to fulfill his duties. "He served his State and the nation," mourned President...
Historical fabric of We Are From Kronstadt is woven from the unsuccessful opera tions of White General Yudenich around Petrograd in the embattled autumn of 1919, when the sailors from Kronstadt in time's nick reinforced workers' battalions and Red Army detachments defending the old capital. That the workers and Army men were compelled to turn around two years later and butcher the fickle and truculent Kronstadt sailors for counter revolution is obviously a sequel which this Bolshevist propaganda film chooses to leave unpictured. In We Are From Kron stadt, the sailors are determinedly glorified as immortal heroes...
...bondholders on his side. Unable to get even a list of bondholders from the management, the Bayles-Tuttle group sought to qualify as a reorganization committee under Section 776 by securing the proxies of 25% of the company's preferred stockholders. This they did in time's nick by corralling the votes of 4,000 shares held in England...
George, the village doctor, she was a goddess. Mary went to stay with George's family, but she visited Sparkenbroke on the sly. In time's nick Sparkenbroke packed up and left for Italy, and Mary married George. Everyone but the reader thought her temptations were over...
...result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project signalizes the beginning of a stringent economy on the part of the Administration. The age-old adage, never too late to learn, seems to have been invoked in the nick of time by that distinguished political figure, "Honest Jim" Farley...