The 541 occurrences of scrap

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TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as UNIX or ITS --- but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun.

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"Your father told us you had been scrapping.

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Billy Byrne had not been scrapping with third- and fourth-rate heavies, and sparring with real, live ones for nothing.

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You've got to scrap.

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"Ah, stop yer damn scrappin'!"

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Did you hear us scrapping when we came in about five o'clock?"

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There's scrapping right along, and people have begun to move.

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Loos was no picnic, and we had had some ugly bits of scrapping before that, but the worst bit of the campaign I had seen was a tea-party to the show I had been in with Bullivant before the war started.

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They were asking me to scrap all I had learned and start again in a new job.

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'I've no quarrel with you, and I've better things to do than be scrapping with a stranger in a public-house.'

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I am not decrying football--I incline to the view that an occasional rough-and-tumble scrapping match in which there is imminent danger of black eyes, and even of broken bones, is good for a boy I simply point out that as an intellectual game it not only ranks far below chess, billiards and baseball, but does not rise to a parity with pugilism.

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I'm always willing to make some sacrifice to secure the luxury of a red-hot intellectual scrapping match.

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We fought much, not sound formal fighting, but "scrapping" of a sincere and murderous kind, into which one might bring one's boots-it made us tough at any rate-and several of us were the sons of London publicans, who distinguished "scraps" where one meant to hurt from ordered pugilism, practising both arts, and having, moreover, precocious linguistic gifts.

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TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS -- but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun.

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It was at this point that Donny slipped away to report that "Mamma and old Hagar are scrappin' over Good Injun again," and told with glee the tale of his misdeeds as recounted by the squaw.

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"The woman insisted on scrapping.

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I only want," she added, deprecatingly, "to see my biggest boy happy, and if I can do anything in any way to help--" "You can't, except just don't worry when we get to scrapping."

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"I foresee that we're due to scrap a good deal of the time," he predicted.

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"Ah well," says Jimmy,--an' 'e's seen some scrappin'-- "There ain't more nor five things as can 'appen; Ye get knocked out; else wounded--bad or cushy; Scuppered; or nowt except yer feeling mushy."

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The air I always breathed was mixed up with grub an' house-rent an' scrappin' an booze an' that's all they talked about, too.

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Usually the girls screamed when the fellows got to scrapping, but she had not screamed.

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What they liked, and were willing to scrap for, was just Mart Eden, one of the bunch and a pretty good guy.

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'The Steel Trust is scrapping the whole of its plant,' he shouted.

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'The State Railways are going to scrap all their engines.

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"Wal, I reckon you can't onless you want to hev them scrappin'," rejoined Stillwell, dryly.

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Wal, Gene's scrappin' now jest to git shot up hisself, for some reason thet only God Almighty knows."

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I do think after a man's spent his lifetime trying to give his kids a chance and a decent education, it's pretty discouraging to hear them all the time scrapping like a bunch of hyenas and never--and never--Curious; here in the paper it says--Never silent for one mom--Seen the morning paper yet?"

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I don't know how we all get to scrapping this way.

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Or Rone and Ted scrapping.

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I want to put you wise about this scrapping with your head-barber all the time.

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When we got to Tulagi, there she was waiting for us and scrapping with Burnett.

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"What's the good of scrapping about in a public-house?" said Charlie, appealing to the company.

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"Men are ground down to scrap and are thrown out as wreckage."

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"I wouldn't want to scrap with you, Dr. Fenneben," Vic stammered.

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"Mary wants you to scrap dozens of things," replied his nephew.

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"That wasn't the Texas way of scrapping; but, being a very important addendum and annex to the regular army, the San Augustine Rifles had to conform to the red-tape system of getting even.

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I'm no--oh, you mean to scrap!

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I got a hunch right now they's goin' to be a heap of scrappin' before they get strung out.

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"I think I threw my shoulder out in the scrapping."

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Let me in on the scrapping to-morrow.'

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But no barehanded scrapping, like ladies at a tea-party, for me."

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Too much scrapping.

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"I never heard," mentioned Broncho, "about any of Dibble's ways of mixin' scrappin' and cipherin'."

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"Well, I haven't been usually regarded as a jack-rabbit when it comes to scrapping; but I don't want a posse smoking me out when I'm in your /jacal/.

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"But can you doubt we are scrapping the old?..."

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You and him can kiss and make up to-morrow or the next day, or whenever you damned please; but to-night there ain't any more time for scrapping.

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Personal fighting has become "scrapping" again, an individual adventure with knife, club, bomb, revolver or bayonet.

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Any added invention will necessitate the scrapping of old types and the production of the new patterns in quantity.

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I supposed that these were leading me to some great scrapping-place filled with the remains of other railway-cars foully scrapped for some fell industrial purpose.

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Are you some wiser now, uncle, or do you want to scrap wit' Mike O'Grady for de Santa Claus belt in dis district?"

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Presently, to his cell came the doorman and said: "Say, kid, that old gazabo that was pinched with you for scrapping seems to have been the goods after all.

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To scrap the long growth of man and start afresh was but to say: 'Since in the past the best that man has done has not been good enough, I have a perfect faith in him for the future!'

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I'm figuring on seeing some first-rate scrapping.

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You want me to scrap that three-inch steel door, do you?"

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Then, afterward, he can claim he was scrappin' because he had to defend his father and mother, and of course he'll more than half believe it himself.

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You know the 'frat' passed a rule that if we broke any more furniture in this house with our scrappin' we'd both be fined the cost of repairs and five dollars apiece.

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"Dey started in scrappin' yesterday when I was here, so to-day I says I'll keep my eye on dem."

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I hurried in when they told me you and him was scrappin'.

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She belonged, largely, to waiting, as Minerva did to the art of scrapping, or Venus to the science of serious flirtation.

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When not dancing the watchful Baron took her through the drawing- rooms and picture-galleries adjoining, which to-night were thrown open like the rest of the house; and there, ensconcing her in some curtained nook, he drew her attention to scrap-books, prints, and albums, and left her to amuse herself with turning them over till the dance in which she was practised should again be called.

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Let us restore the entente cordiale and go about our business without any further scrapping.

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To scrap the long growth of man and start afresh was but to say: 'Since in the past the best that man has done has not been good enough, I have a perfect faith in him for the future!'

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I got to scrapping with a man, Class Day; we wanted to settle a little business we began at the Tree, and he left his marks on me.

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Westover, standing across the grave from him, noticed the marks on his forehead that he said were from his scrapping, and wondered what really made them.

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It was clear to him now that the Class-Day scrapping which had left its marks upon Jeff's face was with Lynde, and that when Jeff got him in his power he was in such a fury for revenge that no mere motive of prudence could have arrested him.

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Varnhagen von Ense tells us how Continental gentlemen envied the social usage which permitted Lord Castlereagh, in 1815, to show off his bruising ability at the expense of a Viennese cabman--probably some consumptive feather-weight, and certainly a man who had never seen a scrapping-match in his life.

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Mr. Balfour at once offered to scrap five ships, and invited the entire American cabinet into the British Embassy, where Sir A. Geddes was rash enough to offer them champagne.

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The American delegates immediately offered to scrap ten ships.

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At the close of the play Lord Beatty, who is urbanity itself, offered to scrap Portsmouth Dockyard, and asked if anybody present would like Canada.

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I couldn't bear to see the mill going to scrap, and I told him a thing or two,--I had the facts and the figures.

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Prominent among the qualities contributing to his success was open-mindedness, "a willingness to be shown," to scrap machinery when his competitors still clung to older methods.

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It'll be fifty in a couple of years, and then we'll have to scrap our machinery and turn over the trade to the South and donate our mills to the state for insane asylums."

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Breath-taking audacity to certain spectators who had followed the delegation hither, some of whom could not refrain from speculating whether it heralded the final scrapping of the machinery of the state; amusing to cynical metropolitan reporters, who grinned at one another as they prepared to take down the proceedings; evoking a fierce approval in the breasts of all rebels among whom was Janet.

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I couldn't bear to see the mill going to scrap, and I told him a thing or two,--I had the facts and the figures.

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Prominent among the qualities contributing to his success was open-mindedness, "a willingness to be shown," to scrap machinery when his competitors still clung to older methods.

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It'll be fifty in a couple of years, and then we'll have to scrap our machinery and turn over the trade to the South and donate our mills to the state for insane asylums."

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And thim little divils have been all the mornin' a-fightin' and a-scrappin' loike Kilkenny cats."

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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.

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"Mart and Mag scrapping?" postulated Mr. Cassidy.

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Why, the last time him and m' girl friend got to scrapping was when he was going on to Pittsburg to play, about a month ago.

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Then we had the whole of the superseded steam-railway system to scrap and get rid of, stations, signals, fences, rolling stock; a plant of ill-planned, smoke-distributing nuisance apparatus, that would, under former conditions, have maintained an offensive dwindling obstructive life for perhaps half a century.

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I'm scrapping the beliefs of half a lifetime because I love you.

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Two men about to fight are pulled apart._] No scrappin' now!

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What are you and me scrappin' over?

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You been scrapping, too, ain't you?

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The Kid wanted him to take up scrapping seriously.

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Dey's a feller I know, a fat Swede--Ole Larsen his monaker is--an' dis feller an' me started in scrapping last week, an' I puts it all over him, so he had it in for me.

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"Dey falls to scrappin' good an' hard.

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It'll be so awkward, scrapping right in the face of Owen's news.

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"There has been a good deal of scrapping around Ypres lately-that given away by the communiques; but for reasons which both the Censor and yourself will appreciate, I can't be more explicit as to locality.

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"As long as the S. W. & P. and the B. F. & N. W. were scrapping, the Sancho Hills Basin had as good service with burros."

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But just as Britain declared war because the invasion of Belgium brought to a head all the vague grounds for opposition to German policy; and just as America broke off relations because the scrapping of undertaking after undertaking regarding the sea-war made it imperative for her to act, so did China choose the right moment to enunciate the doctrine of her independence by voicing her determination to hold to the whole corpus of international sanctions on which her independence finally rests.

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I got to scrapping with a man, Class Day; we wanted to settle a little business we began at the Tree, and he left his marks on me.

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Westover, standing across the grave from him, noticed the marks on his forehead that he said were from his scrapping, and wondered what really made them.

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"Remember how you 'n' the cub were tied in the bow, an' you got to scrapping and fell overboard just above the rapids?

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A man named Challoner tied us together first when Neewa, there, was just about as big as your head, and we did a lot of scrapping before we got properly acquainted.

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I'm not fool enough to scrap about it.

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