Word: phlaxid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club, sat the three judges, with their copies of Funk & Wagnalls and Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...
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