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Word: slid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Give her a good swipe." Mrs. Wilbur did. The bottle disintegrated. The hulk slid downward, waterward, insensible to her clear words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Sullen and Gay | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

...Slid with her drunken rider down the ledges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Surrey Theatre of London. Dickens' always disliked watching his own plays on the stage and seldom attended them. On this occasion, however, his friend Mr. Foster persuaded him to go to the play, but before the show was half over Dickens could stand it no longer; so he slid down onto the floor of his box and remained under the seats with only his head showing until the performance was over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER COMMEMORATES DICKENS' BIRTH FEB. 7 | 1/31/1925 | See Source »

...Princeton failed to show much against Yale on Saturday, the Tiger skaters can not be counted out of the competition yet. Captain Stout is one of the best skaters in college hockey, and he has an exceptionally hard shot. An injury received early in the Yale game, when he slid head first into the rink boards, necessitated his removal, and with him went the last vestige of the Princeton team play. This weakness in team play was the most apparent fault of the Nassau sextet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE GETS DECISIVE WIN OVER TIGER SIX | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...your issue of Dec. 22 in reference to the massacre of the French under John Ribaut by the Spanish under Pedro Menendez on the shores of Florida in 1565. You say that Menendez lined the French up before a firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab at it, since so few people know enough to know the difference between truth and error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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