Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...dip't into the future...
Like swimmers stealing a dip in a wayside brook the skaters discarded their shoes and superfluous clothing at the side of the pond. Spectators, including small boys and ladies with mischievous and predatory instincts, watched the practice, and occasionally carried off souvenirs in the form of a shoe or two. Sometimes the home trek for the Crimson sextet was a walk on skates for a couple of uncomfortable miles...
Snuff addicts "dip" or "sniff" four lbs. a year, apiece. Thus far in 1928, one-tenth of the population of the U. S. has consumed 41,000,000 Ibs. In 1880, one-fiftieth consumed 4,000,000 lbs. American Snuff Co. stock has slowly climbed from...