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Word: clips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lupe Lupien continues to lead the Crimson attack and is hitting at a fast .361 clip. The rise in the Varsity potency at the plate is evidenced by the jump this week in the team batting average in League contests from .226 to .252. Behind Lupien is Frankie Owen in the clean-up position with .324, while lead-off man Art Johns is clouting the ball at an even .300. Falling from first place to fifth in league fielding, the Mitchellmen hold a mediocre .229 percentage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Geepers, look at that grind! He's been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

BLOOD ON THE MOON-Linton Wells- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Autobiography of an ex-Hearst foreign correspondent whose tales of wars, revolutions, ingenious out-wittings of the world's great clip along like an oldtime movie serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...filling in for Art Johns at second base, Dick Grondahl in three league games is the highest Crimson batter in the official standings with an average of .375. Lupe Lupien, colorful first baseman, is second with .313, followed by rightfielder Jim Sullivan who has batted at a .278 clip. Frankie Owen at third is hitting only .250 but holds the league lead in runs batted in with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before all other actresses realistically playing the wronged and fallen woman...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

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