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Word: clips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last season, he hit a sensational .426 in twelve games-during the Cardinals' hectic homestretch duel with the Dodgers. This year, although handicapped by a colossal pre-season buildup that would put the Indian sign on the most phlegmatic 21-year-old, Musial is hitting at a .315 clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refreshments | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...production was at a fast clip in the June 27 week, and TIME'S Index ended at 174.6 (estimated), only 0.2 point below the alltime high. Of the Index's three ingredients, freight carloadings and power production dipped slightly, but steel mills boomed ahead. Last week they turned out 1,664,600 tons of ingot, lifting June output to the highest in U.S. history. Thanks to soaring production in the past six months, shipbuilding (Naval and Merchant) is now the No. 1 user of steel, this year will use about 10,000,000 tons of plates and shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Steady | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...sure enough, the shifty Rommel came to clip his thorn. He came with tanks, with a bee-swarm of dive-bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Second Round: Rommel's | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

This article is for him; he should clip it carefully and paste it to the inside of his brown fedora where it will be handy six weeks from now, when he decides that maybe a trip out for an evening now and again won't mean a flunk in Physics B and eligibility for the draft...

Author: By L. ESORIT Gaulois, | Title: Social Life Vital Part of Students' Initiation Into "The Fellowship of Educated Men" | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Up From Avery | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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