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...official of St. Claire's claimed that an 85-cent fried scallop dinner apparently marked up to $1.40 had originally been a printing error. These were the first scallops, he said, he had had in four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prices in Square Edging Up, Investigation Reveals, as Buyers' Strike Gains Momentum | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...painter starts with a piece of canvas and literally builds his picture on it. Kantor builds with virtuosity, his favorite brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Composers | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl for a race course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: English Derby | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Life-History and Habits of the Shallow-water Scallop." Mr. D. L. Belding. Short Papers. Zoological Laboratories, Fourth Floor, M.Z., Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 2/15/1907 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Life-History and Habits of the Shallow-water Scallop." Mr. D. L. Belding. Short Papers. Zoological Laboratories, Fourth Floor, M.Z., Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 2/9/1907 | See Source »

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