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Word: whizzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elements precisely such as these produced a magnificent whizz-smash, last week, when Don Alfonso Cocobo, a Grandee of Spain, set out for Biarritz and ended up in a de luxe private suite at the Hospital of Bayonne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...same afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...contribute to athletics. But together they make a full man. If we are going to have sports, let us have them, and let us play our hockey games with the best hockey sticks and cheer leaders that competition can produce, but don't let us ask the team to whizz the puck back and forth across the ice with their breath. Let the spectators do that if they come, but by all means and above all, let them stay at home if they wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 2/28/1925 | See Source »

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