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Word: splashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...chugs along the railway tracks at a speed of seven miles an hour, automatically squirting a splash of paint on all invisible defects in the rails that it passes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...atmosphere more easily than others. If they are all electrons, those which reach sea level-reasons Dr. Compton-must have as much as thirty billion volts behind them. Dr. Compton's estimate is untenable, argues Dr. Millikan. Photons at five hundred million volts make just as big a splash in an electroscope as might electrons many times stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millikan to Compton | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...this, my official and only debut, I, Big Splash, will take stock of the Varsity natators. It will be with light hearts that the Crimson mermen will leave Cambridge this afternoon, confident that they will easily prevail over Columbia in the dual meet to be held in the pool of the New York institution tomorrow afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

...Splash Predicts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

...Splash will step out of his role as a depester and will occupy the position formerly held by his venerable and revered colleague. Hu Flung Buey oeC. the wily and occult Oriental and forecast a 45-26 victory for the Crimson team. Just wait and sec, and View tiredly agree with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

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