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Word: doffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Total Patriotism | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff of the hat to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Crabs' Progress | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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