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Word: slid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that prevented the Harvard skaters from scoring more than twice. The action was in front of the Blue net throughout the period. Lakin beat Kimball with a short shot about half way through the period. A short while later the puck rebounded from Frost's skate and slid into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 SKATERS ARE EASY VICTORS IN FIRST GAME | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

...Augustus, "the first all-Fascist built ship," will be the largest motor ship in the world (33,000 tons). She slid into the water at Genoa last week only eight months after her keel was laid, and her great Diesel motors will send her churning to South America seven months hence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alalas | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...

Author: By Cabl SCHUSTER ., | Title: Two of the Earth's Four Corners | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Almond eyed Chinese solemnly walked the floor never cracking a smile, even when one of the cannibals slid across the floor and left a black streak, they were planning revenge on the Jews who were making eyes at their women and Grank their cider...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

...heard he told them not to jump. They looked at shivering Mr. Kanevaros of Indiana and waited obediently until ropes were passed and they were all taken off. Pilot Dinsmore, now standing waist-deep, was the last. As the smack swung clear, the plane pulled her tail under and slid down to join the Spanish galleons, the German submarines, the Channel-swimmers' brandy bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sowing | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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