Word: clips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clip them?" asked a reporter...
...That's right. And clip...
...Farm Board sold its last 8,000,000 lb., cotton contracts touched 9?a pound. Venerable Boston wool merchants compared their market to the Wartime boom as the old clip neared exhaustion and wool tops hit 78? a pound against the year's low of 54?. In New Orleans brewers jacked the price of beer $1 a barrel because of rising malt and hop prices...
...Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness...
...MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY-Edgar Wallace-Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail...