Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked if he would commit harakiri, Yamashita grinned and shook his close-cropped head: "Hara-kiri? No, no harakiri." A U.S. soldier who had helped establish contact with Japan's ferocious "Tiger of Malaya" conferred on him a new nick name: "The Gopher of Luzon...
...salted celery plant produced by treating soil with 1,000 Ibs. of salt per acre before planting (developed by Wisconsin Farmer Nick Engel...
...self-assured was Helen Matoff, an only child, who felt a little sad about leaving England. She said that her husband of one year, Sergeant Nick Matoff, was already addicted to tea. They had first met in church, Helen said, which led her new sister-in-law of Waterbury, Conn., to remark: "We're very pleased about Nick's going to church...
...Street & Smith, Nick Carter (in real life, Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey) pounded out a novel (30,000 words) a week. Burt L. Standish (William Gilbert Patten) manufactured 30,000 words a month about Frank Merriwell. Other S. & S. standards: Oliver Optic (William T. Adams), Horatio Alger...
...books for boys, at least two novels for girls and several books of bad poetry, besides some earlier pamphlets. But most of the books were short, averaging 55,000 words by actual count; his total production was about 7,000,000 words. Frederick Dey, author of most of the "Nick Carter" series, ground out more than 21,000,000 words...