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Word: nipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devine tightened his grasp on the regular left end position over Gene Lovett by holding forth at that station all afternoon. And Club Peabody now rates a slight edge on Don Lowry in their nip-and-tuck scrap for the starting left guard assignment. Dick Pfister is his running mate at right guard...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: HELMAN PROMOTED TO SECOND TAILBACK JOB | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

Vander Eb has looked very capable back at his old post as a blocker, and his promotion to the Red squad presages a spirited battle with Frazier Curtis for the first reserve blocking back slot. Another nip-and-tuck contest for starting honors Saturday is continuing between Don Lowry and Chub Peabody...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: RUMOR OF NEW JOB SPIKED BY HARLOW | 10/11/1939 | See Source »

...Japanese had a tingling sensation in their small, tidy bones. It said to them that the time had come to pulverize their great neighbor, to nip off the five wealthy Chinese northern provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi, Suiyuan, Chahar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...every case of advanced colored T. B. there are five minimal (early) cases. But minimal cases are hard to detect, and most doctors pay them no mind. Without "mass X-raying of entire communities," said Dr. Peyton Fortine Anderson of Manhattan, it is impossible to nip T. B. in the bud. Modern equipment will make such detective work practicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Black Tuberculosis | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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