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Word: nipper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike dorm rooms, were and are configured ergonomically. Before computers became office fixtures, secretaries had both a typing table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting the table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...nipper in question, the second-place Big Green (5-15, 4-4), is riding a two-game winning streak following a tough doubleheader against the Quakers...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: Despite Weather, Baseball Races Heat Up | 4/17/1996 | See Source »

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