Word: clacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...click-clack ("snoogins") to cry out "Deliver!" on a triple slam...
...Clackety-Clack...
They were problems in the multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...
...first encounter at 3 o'clock will find the third-year Law School team opposing the only team representing the students doing research work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, while the 4 o'clock clack will bring together two second-year teams, one of the Business School and their opponents in the Law School...