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Word: biff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Equipped with crackers, a bottle of milk and a play for reading, I was speeding in my limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter-the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The New York Herald-Tribune, perhaps to increase sympathy, reported me as 'in the seventies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...make from heem a corn-biff sanawich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION,FICTION: Melba | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Song and dance and damsels are most divertingly combined in the following: Sunny, Louie the 14th, Biff Boy, Artists and Models, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince, Rose Marie, No, No, Nanette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...strong man can fight," he said, "if he is strong enough. To be a good boxer you must be quick, but not in the head. So long as you are a big, strong, quick man, you can go biff and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Fencing Develops the Intelligence, Boxing Increases the Nose," Says Danguay--"It Takes Brains to Fence" | 3/27/1925 | See Source »

...Prince also proved his ability as a boxer. In the ship's gymnasium, he had a friendly round or so with the ship's instructor. "You want to shoot that left out sharper, sir," said the instructor. The Prince did, and caught him a good, stiff biff on the jaw. He apologized profusely, but his mentor replied, touching his face tenderly, "I deserved all I got from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princely Pilgrim | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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