Word: clips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes a piercee is a girl who just never liked non-pierced earrings. The clip earrings always hurt her ears, and the screw ones either slid sideways or fell off during the evening. Pierced ears seemed a good way to remedy such problems, because the piercee cannot feel the earrings she is wearing. Of course, pierced earrings are not completely loss-proof. One 'Cliffie wore her earrings to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find one gone. She looked under the pllow and searched the sheets, but with no luck, and so considered the earring lost. When...
...proposal had seemed innocent enough: simply to build some passes under or over Memorial Drive, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River so that traffic could move along at the same quick clip as on the well-under passed Storrow Drive on the Boston side. In 1962, State Senator Francis X. McCann got a bill through the legislature ordering the Metropolitan District Commission to build the needed underpasses and overpasses...
WHEN Financier Allan P. Kirby in 1961 lost control of Alleghany Corp., a huge holding company that controls a $6.5 billion rail and financial empire, those who did not know him well thought that he might retire to his 27-room mansion and clip coupons. After all, Kirby, now 71, was already worth at least $250 million through major holdings in Woolworth, I.T. & T., Phillips Petroleum, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the New York Central Railroad. But Kirby is as stubborn as he is rich. He began a battle to regain control of Alleghany from the men who had wrested...
...film runs in absolute silence. When a machine gun fires, the frames jump in the same staccato. The film is divided into tweive titled episodes; the exposure as well as the focus fades emphatically with the concluding line of each episode. Alternating sequences of an early Dreyer film clip and Godard's modern celluloid contrast sharply with each other...
...Crimson showed amazing poise in coming from far back to beat a team which was shooting at a 56 per cent clip from the floor. This could be the best basketball team Harvard has produced in at least five years...