Word: clips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...Lions started off at a fast clip in the foils, Captain Tompkins of Columbia winning all of his three bouts. The University team, however, managed to win two of the last three bouts making the final count 5-4. Columbia won easily in the sabre event with a score of 3-1, R. W. Ehrich '30 saving the team from a white wash...
...Junior University crew, granted a two-length lead at the temporary bridge, started off at a fast clip that kept it in front of the first eight, stroked by Captain John Watts '28, for a half-mile. At the Harvard Bridge, one of the Junior oarsmen caught a crab and the boat paced by James Lawrence '29 dropped three quarters of a length...
...poisoning was caused by drink. The Actors' Equity Association asserted that it would punish Actress Eagels with becoming severity should the charges against her be proven true. Becoming severity in such a case might conceivably mean expulsion from the Equity Association, an action which would be sufficient to clip the wings of her stage career...
Pointing to his gigantic resources of $300,000,000, the Statistic Co. said: "He could, if he wished, clip more than $100,000,000 from the current value of stock owned by the General Motors Corp. stock-holders by forcing competition on an unequal basis...