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Word: nubbin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been worn down to a small nubbin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...nubbin of this situation is really easy to understand if we approach it from a different slant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Rations | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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