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Word: hoorays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the week-end and into the dawn of Election Day, the pulse of the nation quickened until it sounded like a machine-gun tattoo or a concentrated yip, yip, hooray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sidewalks of Chicago | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

From the quay, past crowds which cried "Hip! Hip! Hooray!" the party ascended a steep hill to take luncheon near the old Citadel of Quebec, at the magnificent hotel, Chateau Frontenac. There Edward of Wales and Stanley Baldwin rivaled and outdid one another in the suavity and tact of their luncheon speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Empire Tour | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Sirs: Hooray! Hooroo! I see that elderly biped, Mary Elizabeth Robinn, has presented you [TIME, May 2] with another ROBINN'S EGG-that's what our family call her letters knocking the Prince of Wales. . . . I guess all she wants is to get her letters printed in TIME. . . . CUTLER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...baseball crowd in the U. S. ever roared louder than the record crowd that traveled from far and wide to see the match at Taunton. "Hurrah," they yelled. "Hip, hip, hooray," they cheered. "For he's a jolly good fellow," they sang as they flocked on to the field, crowded the embarrassed cricketer, saw him drink a goblet of champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Ruth | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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