Search Details

Word: clips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Frank Burke, of Dudley, batting .324, holds down the keystone sack, and John Hall of Massachusetts Hall, batting .332, is the shortstop. Third baseman Lynch hits at a .363 clip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ballplaying Janitors Will Meet All Comers | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

...steady stream of wrong numbers continued at a five-a-day clip. It took about a week to discover that the number of the Telephone Shopping Service of Fileno's was ELiot 4-5000, and that Bostonians, in their haste to latch onto a new pair of pants, had been mixing up the phone number of "the world's largest specialty store" with that of four tired freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Phone Calls Plague Freshmen With Requests | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving over the counters at a 10,000-a-week clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Hardest hit were the concessionaires who rent clip-on sears built especially for the stadium. It's an off season for their 1000 slats of L-shaped wood, with a cushion or two glued to the sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Week Without any Weekend For the First Time Since Summer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Railroad was making up for lost time. Though it was one of the last major U.S. railroads to dieselize, it was finally retiring steam locomotives at a fast clip and stepping up its purchase of diesel-electric equipment. Last week it took its biggest step yet: it ordered 226 locomotives, costing some $38 million, from six manufacturers.* The new order will give Pennsy the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Out Steam | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | Next