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Word: strip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while you were championing not their rights alone, but the rights of all men who possess the priceless heritage of liberty under English law. . . . Burst your marble fetters! Strip off your cerements of oil and canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lawyer's Hero | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Lest anyone get the idea that the life of a news board man is all meat and no potatoes, be it understood here and now that candidates will be expected to take their turn at interviewing visiting strip teasers, local nuts, and other such dull material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pretzel Bending Limbers Aspirants In Tonight's Competition Inaugural | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...plant will soon be opened at Longview. Then bark processing and plywood making will be on an assembly-line basis. Mechanical peelers will strip the logs, send the bark to the processing section, the logs to the saws; they will meet again as Silvacon glue and plywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

According to his confession won by police, Farrell forced his way into the second story room and forced the exchange lecturer from the University of Toronto to strip. He then ransacked the apartment, and succeeded in making off with $35 in cash, an unmatched pair of shoes, and Havelock's watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Havelock Bandit Nabbed, to Face Victim in Court | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Eric A. Havelock, visiting lecturer on Classics, was held up and robbed in his second floor Leverett House room last night by an armed and cool intruder. The thief carefully ransacked Havelock's J-22 room after forcing the teacher to strip, and made a successful though not unobserved getaway with $35 cash in $5 bills and a pair of shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Lecturer Robbed in Room By Cool Gunman | 6/13/1947 | See Source »

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