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Word: nipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nip the hidden boom. The Federal Reserve Board is well aware that market averages, because they take into account only a few stocks, no longer show the overall rise in stock values as they once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Just a Mild Surprise | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...McDonald's 1944-45 soccer team can bear down when the pressure is on, as was shown last Wednesday at Soldiers Field when the Crimson blasted home four goals in the second half to nip Brown, 4 to 3. The victory avenged a 1 to 0 defeat suffered at the hands of the same Bruin outfit this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCERMEN EDGE BROWN, 4-3, WILL MEET TUFTS TOMORROW | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

...answered all the questions, something he has certainly not required to do, and in perfect English. At first the American officer believed his replies, but when Nip willingly gave him the exact time and place for the appearance of the next barge fleet, he became skeptical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torbie MacDonald, '39 Football Captain, Back from Pacific Duty | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

Following a nip-and-tuck fight for the J.V. spot, Charlie Loring's Freshmen will race as the second boat tomorrow, having won a coin toss from Bill Allen's crew. Both crews finished in a dead heat in Wednesday's time trial which was to decide the contest. The third contestant for the J.V. position, Shaw's boat, finished a poor third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews to Race Tech, Cornell in Triangular Regatta on Charles | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

Down U-Boats. The Japs also respect a smaller brother of the Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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