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

...such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boom to Gloom | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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