Word: nip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of advice from people who understand them and can give new ideals, young people treat sex like a nip of whiskey from a hip flask. . . . Love belongs with open spaces and real loving involves the whole personality...
...enabled the Crimson to end the game. With Nannigan on first as the result of Booth's only base on balls, Hammond hit sharply to Lord. Instead of touching first base, the Harvard infielder shot the ball to Ullman, whose return throw to Lord was in time to nip the batter for a double play and the final out of the game...
Abie's Irish Rose?The races nip each other before conglomeration...
Judging from previous records this match promises to be a nip and tuck affair. The English racquet men are all adept players and in their clash with the University team in the Nationals they staged a hard fight which nearly netted them a victory and very probably would have in case of victory at that time taken the title out of this country for the first time. After the first four matches the teams stood 2 to 2. Jackson, by winning his match, saved the day for the University team...
According to a list, compiled by the New York World, of current laws proposed in state legislatures, the republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit...