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Word: tiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand straight at Tiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Standing Straight at Tiffany's | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...brief two-and-a-half-hour ceremony following a slight tiff over the direction the bird should face, CRIMSON editors and Lampoon members resolved that the Ibis should face toward 14 Plympton St., rather than toward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Raises Ibis to New Heights | 5/13/1954 | See Source »

Empty for two years since a tiff over funds between its builder and the University, the Geographic Institute has been selected as the new home of the Mathematics Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mathematics Department Transfers To Abandoned Geographic Institute | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

...might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself the job of prison executioner, only to grow absentminded, kill another convict in a tiff and end up on his own guillotine -after being good enough to set the blade himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gone to Hell | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing, you know") but, even so, ordered him to pack his things and move out. To the reporters she explained that her own black eye had resulted from a domestic tiff four days earlier ("I don't mind being punched. Noel Coward said that women should be struck regularly like a gong and he's right"). In conclusion, she observed thoughtfully,"Women are no damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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