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Word: clutching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...dark, fetid street there is still a strong sense of the hot, swart, teeming Italians inside. In the winter, 107th Street is piled with refuse and dirty snow. In the summer the sun beats down until it bubbles the tar. Thick, bad odors cling in the crannies, clutch at the passerby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Most Damnably Outrageous | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Later Egg-Hunter Sutton & friends, and also their Canadian competitors, found more Harris's sparrow eggs-pale green with mottled brown marbling. Mr. Sutton's clutch he will give to the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh. (He was once curator of birds at the Carnegie Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rare Eggs | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...sheep-ranch, who had parked his car near where some one had cut a wire fence. An altercation arose as to who had cut the fence and whether or not it should be closed before Stringer could drive through. Suddenly Stringer climbed into his car, let in the clutch and, spurting, ran Mr. Stanfieid down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Plate clutch, making gear shifting and repairs easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Automobile Medal | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Price: $1,095. Stutz has a sweeping model distinguished by porthole vents in the hood. The running-board is moulded rubber. A mechanical improvement: a two-plate clutch. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crucial Motors | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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