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Word: shim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Comes Jazz (Columbia) includes such favorites as Shim Me Sha Wabble, That Da-Da Strain and At the Jazz Band Ball, torn off with good Dixieland sound by such alumni of Chicago's North Side as Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Night, Irene | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Call of the Wild | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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