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Word: skid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Chains for jewelers, chains for ship anchors. and all in between sizes including Weed, "Rid-o-skid" and other auto chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...soothingly on the grease-mud as there lurks the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you roll round the corners to save the collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Wandering Horse | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Prince George, as his car sped through London, was victim of a vicious skid, overturned. Nonchalant, His Royal Highness crawled from the wreck, straightened up, lit a cigaret, hailed a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Worst in Decades | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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