Word: stub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, but those that remain will be interested to see what they were selling in 1946, and will no doubt be stimulated to advertise in later yearbooks by this display of kept bargains. The Corporation will have a chance to weigh the Album in one hand against the stub of a $5000 check in the other...
After that just about everyone forgot Alfalfa Bill. He wandered between Tishomingo and Oklahoma City-a skinny, bent figure almost lost in a bundle of mufflers and disheveled coats, a cigar stub still sticking out from under a now straggly old mustache. He spent his time writing long and scholarly books on politics, history, and economics, and peddling them to his friends...
Short, broad wings are good "future practice" in aerodynamics. The NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) proved years ago by wind-tunnel tests that the long, graceful wings of bombers are much less efficient above Mach 1 than clumsy-looking "stub" wings. As planes get faster, their wings will probably grow stubbier still until they diminish into something looking like an arrowhead...
...your article on the 1948-49 automobiles [TIME, Oct. 4]: Obviously, the designers from every company got together one night, had too many drinks and [decided] to make all cars alike-too wide, too stub-nosed and boxy-looking-and thus enjoy a designer's holiday . . . CALDER B. VAUGHAN Washington...
...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...