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Word: puffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grace of our welcomed opponents the teams are ready, and the undergraduate is more than ready. All that is lacking is a puff of wind to rattle a dry pea in a tin whistle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL BLASTS | 10/6/1923 | See Source »

...finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly. When I recovered, I found myself in a clump of bushes some distance lower down. Only providence had saved me from falling 563 feet into the river below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/30/1922 | See Source »

...reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY LADY'S NICOTINE | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

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