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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold," you might say. But not to these hardy fellows. They love it, all four of them--President Bob Betts '44 and charter members Jake Crane 3rd '44, Bill Eiser '44, and Nick (The Spik from Puerto Ric) Fratt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Face Freezing Foam For First Frigid Frolic | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

Sunday's meeting was hastily adjourned, however, when underwear-clad Nick sat down on a well-filled lobster trap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Face Freezing Foam For First Frigid Frolic | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

...suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hold Back the Dawn" | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

When farmers refused to pay the Stirone organization a fee for working on the projects, a reign of terror was begun which finally ended in the trial of Stirone unionists-but not Nick. From the stand, Stirone was accused of telling an aide that he wanted a contractor and two C.I.O organizers murdered, that he wanted people to "shiver in their boots when Nick Stirone was mentioned." Last month Stirone was hauled into court by the business agent of a laborer's local, who wanted Nick put under bond to keep the peace because "he said he would cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...University. However, several years ago he was preparing to meet Hervey Allen, author of the then best-seller "Anthony Adverse," and discovered several minutes before the reception that no copy of the book could be found. Mr. Murdock himself sprinted up to the Square and bought one in the nick of time, and while the author scrawled his autograph on the fly-leaf, concealed the uncut pages with masterful grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leigh Hoadly Will Replace Murdock as Hutch Master | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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