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

...outfielder substituting on the mound, the Yardling ball team was edged out by the Brown Freshmen at Providence yesterday by one run in the eleventh inning which made the score 3 to 2. Regular pitcher Jack Schwede was invalided to Stillman with a bad knee in the seventh, so Pip Cutler was pressed into service from right field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Lose in Eleventh | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...superficial cinema roles that have enveloped her-how sound an actress Alice Brady is, her warming, plainspoken, broguish portrayal of the Widow O'Leary was a revelation. By long odds the most convincing performer in In Old Chicago, she makes handsome Tyrone Power seem something of a pip-squeak as Chicago's boss, reduces the whole caboodle of headlined stars to the ranks of supporting players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Kingdom and, of course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jimmy's Paradox | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...takes the "t" out of can't and the "i" out of pip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Have you PEP or the PIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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