Word: nubbins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coordination we have cardiologists, angiologists, cardiac surgeons, peripheral vascular men and, of late, the more glorious nephrologists . . . Unfortunately there seems to be no term to cover the entire circulation. But in our own thinking, let us make a fresh start and consider the heart as only a 'specialized nubbin' on the whole vascular tree and reintegrate the heart and blood vessels back into the unified system that it really...
...turning back history to 1929, Judge Weinfeld set off some 1929-style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...
Last week the Army Times, an unofficial service weekly, immediately set up a raucous shout from its own street corner. Said the Times: Miss Higgins had tied a 15-in. column "of nothing to a nubbin of something that may or may not have happened and cabled it off at press rates just in time to catch the first whisky sour at the Carlton bar . .. We spent a month recently in Frankfurt and other parts of Germany. We must confess that not once did we hear a soldier shout 'Kommen Sie her'. . . Yet Miss Higgins, pausing briefly...
...Army Times apparently. For its caterwauling at hard-working Correspondent Higgins seemed to be tied to a nubbin of nothing...