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Word: stunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pork-and-beans; canned-milk cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist, country bent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEST HISTORY TELL | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

...your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Empyrean | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...under a contract concluded in 1896 and the railway zone was administered solely by Russians. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, the U. S. took over temporarily the operation of the railways. During this period the Wilson Administration spent $5,000,000 for the upkeep of the railway, which stun is now owing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebuff | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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