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Word: shh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shh!" hissed the professor. "An understudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of Paddy | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Oklahoma City's Wheeler School, one day last week, moppets who were drowsily planning some means of truancy had their reveries abruptly interrupted and realized. The monotonous tamping of an oil-well driller 150 ft. away suddenly ceased and Swuss-shh! high over the top of the derrick rose a column of dirty liquid, filling the air with a fine spray of oil, sand, gas. Gauged at 65,000 bbl. per day, the gusher was pronounced by oilmen the greatest high gravity producer within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gusher Holiday | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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