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

...Felix, are back already. The invitation did not include ex-Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, now sojourning in California, who was never charged with a specific, forgivable crime. Just as good feeling began to run high an incident in Orizaba, State of Veracruz, made President Cárdenas jumpier than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Orizaba Martyr | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

National Affairs. Cuba's polite, distinctively uniformed English-Spanish speaking "tourist police" had the tourists well and safely in hand; but President Machado was jumpier than ever about what Cuba's excitable citizens would do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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