Word: pipping
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Nevertheless British politicians-seldom sensitive to even the most appalling facts of business-were more interested in two pip-squeak developments...
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...Pip is something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...
...melodramas before her mother adopted Pickford, her immigrant grandmother's maiden, name, as the family surname and altered Gladys to "Mary." In 1909, D. W. Griffith was looking for someone to play Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced, first under Griffith, then with other companies, to $2,000 a week in 1915, when she was called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over...
...extra eggs. Feed is ground and mixed by electrical machinery. Humming motors run corn-husking devices. Electric clocks dump pecks of oats into feed bins at 5 a. m. Electricity warms incubators where motors revolve the eggs periodically. Chicks are automatically herded under ultraviolet rays to ward off the pip. Electric heaters keep the pigpen cosy...