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Word: unscrewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Russian peasant is for us an interesting psychological problem which needs to be studied. Maxim Gorky warns us thus: 'Leaders of the Bolshevists, remember my words! The day is not distant when the Russian peasants will revolt against your terrorism, and then, woe unto you! They will ruthlessly "unscrew" your heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Gawky Gorky | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Did Horace Turn? | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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