Word: clipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honky-tonks and clip joints have vanished from Twelfth Street; the bawdy houses on Cherry Street are now mostly respectable boarding houses. The raucous Chesterfield Club, where the waitresses wore nothing at all between their pumps and their permanents, has been torn down...
From Cecil to Cecil. For centuries the House of Commons had been whittling away at the Lords' powers. Now the Socialist government was at it. The Lords' power of veto went in 1911, but they could still delay legislation. Labor was out to clip this delaying period from two years to one. The Lords suspected another aim: to draw the Lords' last teeth and leave the hereditary House as a Blimpish appendage-or even abolish it altogether...
...Some Ordinary Blokes." Lord Addison conferred with Labor's Herbert Morrison. Labor would agree to a conference, on condition that it would not affect the progress of the bill to clip the Lords' powers. That was not satisfactory to the Tory Lords. Debate ranged wide. Lord Lindsay of Birker, who is also the learned Master of Oxford's Balliol College, needled the aristocrats. What the House of Lords needed, he suggested, was "some ordinary blokes...
...stopgap. The shortage will soon get worse. The enormous demand for oil this year is expected to exceed the 1945 wartime peak by some 14%. Among the reasons: over 90% of the locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased 66%. The shortage, said Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, might last for three years. Most oilmen agreed...
Incidentally, a much more widely used and better-known relative of the meter that you described in the article is the Gamma Ray Pocket Dosimeter. Latest models are no b.rger than a fountain pen. They are worn with a clip in the pocket, and indicate at any time during the day the total quantity of radiation that the wearer has absorbed and so whether it is safe to continue at work. (DR.) O. G. LANDSVERK Chicago...