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Word: igh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Je suis Titania from Mignon, on two less classical numbers entitled Let's Give Love Another Chance and (as Miss Pons says) 'Itting a New 'Igh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...High Odds" Hughes is the first important English bookmaker to invade the U. S. for a generation. He advertises his specialty by holding up his slate and jabbering: "I lay the 'igh odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Churchill Downs | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...pursued by the tom-tom's beat, by the tax-leeched natives whom he had ruled, by voodoo devils, by the weakness of the mortal flesh. Three shots rang out. His Majesty fell, staggered forward, collapsed at the feet of Smithers, white, rum-soaked, trader. "Where's year 'igh an' mighty airs now, yer bloomin' Majesty? Gawd blimey, but yer died in the 'eighth o' style...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...these words in Gaelic: . . ."-from TIME, Oct. 10. B'fhéidir go mba chliste dhuit an méid seo thuas a scriobhadh agus b'fhéidir narbh é. Pé scéal é ni fhuil ann acht tuairim TIME agus ar ndóigh ni thigeann TIME teanga uasal na hEireann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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