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Word: tucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biology concentrator is wise to tuck away as many of the basic courses as possible in his first two years, since almost all of the advanced courses are bound by chains of prerequisites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Guide to Fields of Concentration | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Members of the new committee will investigate ways that Annex students can take a tuck in their budgets, and later this term, will publicize part-time jobs, chores around the college and other means of saving and earning money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Annex Council Names 11 1949-50 Committee Heads | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball for the No. 1 spot, Mrs. Kerr launched her biggest advertising campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Green, Sidney Granville, and the D'Oyly Carte Chorus. Known to every loyal Saveyard, oldtimers Green and Granville don't seem to mind the cameras at all; a gag's a gag, and these two know how to use one. Sydney Granville, as Pooh-Bah, looks more like Friar Tuck than Lord High Everything Else, but he plays the part for all its' worth. As for Martyn Green, anyone who has ever seen the man in action knows that the show could rock and he'd still save...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Mikado | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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