Word: clips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burns is left out of the reckoning, Sullivan becomes the big stick of the Harvard diamond men. Besides hitting at a clip of .380, the Crimson short stop is also the leader in other departments of the nine's offense. He has made the most hits eight; he has scored the most runs, nine; he leads the base-stealers with three thefts to his credit: and he is tied with Captain Todd and Zarakov for the most three-base hits and home-runs, respectively...
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...younger horse clip-clopped into the puddle. He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...
...almost hear him say it, the modern Oxford man, the "frightfully keen" British student of history and politics, the clip-voweled ex-President of the Oxford union, the fresh and lively standee for a Parliament seat from Cricklewood or somewhere. One has heard it often. It is quite true. It may be lamentable. It may be irrelevant...
...painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...