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...niff-naw (Scotch-Irish dialect)-argument

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...Niff expects that the new undergraduate library may have larger clientele this year because of the draft exemption rule for students in the upper half of their class. Scholars in the upper half of their class. Scholars attempting to pilfer books for longer study however, will be confronted again with last year's fine of 75 cents per late book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Opens Doors Monday | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...good to the infantrymen, and the infantrymen looked good to the signorine. "Men!" cried one lusty widow as she "smoothed the dress down over her body and stepped out of her house onto the pavement." In their own way, the British were equally enthusiastic : "This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enemy's Women | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Dear lassie, it is but daffin To had thy wooer up ay niff naffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...slumped drastically. The reason: SKF employes, confused by all the niff-naw, thought that the bearings they were making were going to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Backfire | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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