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Word: handclap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Neunkirchen | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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