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Chicago dentist Maxwell Lappe had created an artificial fingernail for nail biters called Nu Nails in 1934.

Here we are 10 years later, and they have not even gotten to all of them, and the ones they have gotten to, the industry has fought tooth and nail.

But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.

The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.

MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.

Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.

The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”

Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.

"Well, as far as public opinion goes, I s'pose Tom has hit the nail on the head," observed Bill.

He pulled his heavy sweater down off a nail and put it on, scowling because the sleeves had to be pulled in place on his arms.

He disliked the look of Cash's rough coat and sweater and cap, that hung on a nail over Cash's bunk.

You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.