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Word: cuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Rhumba Queen of 1947) is being thrown out of her room because hse has no money. Her landlady hints that her reputation is not without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson players, pared don to 21 Friday following a probably final cut, showed well in the scrimmage; they scored easily against a weaker MIT defense. Shepard frequently centered his offense on a double pivot, pairing two of his three tall men, Bill Prior, John Rockwell, and Ed Smith, in the slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shepard Quintet Scrimmages Tech In long Workout | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

Early in February, the Freshman Intramural Athletic Committee will again cut down the Yard into two leagues. This time, however, all the strong teams will be in one league and the weaker ones in another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Intramural Basketball Teams Begin Practice Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Yellow Rocks | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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