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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nick the Greek, the legendary gambler who once lost $240,000 in a card game and then calmly got into a discussion on art with Billy, who is also something of an amateur in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Hard Cure. In Kansas City, Kans., Nick Albert Isaacs confessed that he had attempted a bank robbery because he needed money to make good a bad check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Many an oldster still complains that the U.S. has lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Up the Hill | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Costas Rodis, brother of Varsity tackle Nick, looks ready to catch his share of Captain Carroll Lowenstein's passes if Coach Lamar wants him. Rodis reported late to the squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battered '52 Football Squad Plans Comeback Tomorrow Against Green | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

With all due credit to the required downfield blocks and to the perfect hand off by Nick Athans, Moffie is probably the only Harvard back capable of swiveling so neatly past the two Holy Cross tacklers who had him and then didn...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Victory Shows Crimson Still Potential Unit | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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