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Word: baff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson disappeared. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Elis as Brua and Gilkey turned it against them by a 5 to 4 tally. In the sabre, the Elis eked out a 5 to 4 win thanks to the nice swords play of Isaacs and Mims, who overshadowed the Crimson contingent of Wright, Alberts, and Baff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI SWORDSMEN SWEEP IN ALL THREE EVENTS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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