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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that day. One morning her husband finds her sweeping the back alley. "Oh, Nick," she snivels with self-pity, "it takes so long to have a baby, you forget what made it seem like a good idea in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...five players on the freshman squash team defeated a perenially powerful Exeter team, 5 to 0, at Exeter Saturday. Jerry Emmet, Charlie Poletti, AlVinton, Nick Lamont, and John Scullip all won with very little difficulty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Prove Royally | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

Captain Jerry Emmet at number one will lead the Yardling squash team against a strong Exeter squad. Charlie Poletti will be at number two, while Al Vinton will play three, John Scullin four, and Nick Lamont will be at five. Exeter, generally tops among prep schools in squash, defeated the Yardlings last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet To Meet Williams, Tries for 7th Win | 2/9/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson's Freshman squash team won an easy 9-0 victory over M.I.T. yesterday. The Crimson team, playing without its first and second men, Jerry Emmett and Charlie Poletti, lost only one of twenty-eight games played. Members of the team are: Al Vinton, John Scullin, Nick Lamont, Mike Humphries, Alan Blackner, Toby Gallaway, Pete Keyes, Willie Sutton, and Denny Briggs. Except for Sutton's 3-1 score, all the results of yesterday's matches were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '60 Squash Squad Topples M.I.T., 9-0 | 1/16/1957 | See Source »

...Nicholas M. Schenck, 74, one of Hollywood's last tycoons, quit the board of Loew's Inc., world's biggest moviemaker (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, M-G-M records). A Russian immigrant boy who peddled papers, Nick Schenck got in at the start of the picture business, fought his way to the presidency of Loew's in 1927. Last year, as earnings fell and the threat of a stockholders' proxy fight rose, Schenck moved upstairs to board chairman, later honorary chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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