Word: shear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...
Certainly the market will boomerang one of these days . . . but not until the buying power of potential security purchasers is completely exhausted. And with the backlash will come a paring of prices that will shear off points from the blue chips as well as the canine variety...
Where Now? Not for several months will the House Committee report out a bill on securities-acts amendments. When it does, it is not likely to shear away any real powers...
...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
...Flangers shear snow from the inside of rails...