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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tackle Nick Daukas is the star of the Dartmouth front wall. Six feet, three inches tall, weighing 215, Daukas saw little action last fall, but he will be very much in evidence on Saturday. The other tackle, Lee Anderson, was shifted from guard this fall because his speed of foot hindered his play at that slot. If he is more at home at tackle, there may be trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INEXPERIENCED INDIAN LINE FACES STIFF CONTEST | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

...rushed up from the rear of the group, and shouted out "column right-march" just in the nick of time to save some valuable units of Uncle Sam's Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Minute Command Saves Navy Platoon from Disaster | 9/4/1942 | See Source »

...feature. Mixing some really tense melodrama with Eddie Bracken's best, it comes through with a story that keeps the audience moderately jittery for nearly an hour. Two murders on a college campus are the basis for this murder mystery which conceals the villain's identity in the best Nick Carter style, while befuddling the audience with slapstick. Neither picture will be accused of belonging to the year's top ten, and they aren't too far from the bottom...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Instead of fine musicians like Red Allen, Pete Brown, and Sidney Bechet, who have been setting the Ken a-rocking in the past three months, there will be a pussyfoot outfit under Nick Jerrit. Not that the band hasn't possibilities, but playing alongside J. C. Higginbotham and Pete Brown in yesterday's jam session, Jerrit's bunch was dismally uninteresting. There evidently won't be an end to the Sunday sessions, which is heartening. I don't think they'll be as exciting as previously, if for the simple reason that you can't build a whole afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Time's Nick. In De Witt County, ILL., Farmer Carle Walker insured his crops against damage by hail. Twenty minutes later a hailstorm destroyed his corn and soybeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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