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Word: wow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wow-Wow-WOW-WOW- WOW! Hear that Tiger roar! Far above Cayuga's waters, Watch the Red Team score. Three, cheers for Old Nassau, my boys, Three cheers, and one more yell, O hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast of the moving public target. It has carefully trained its sales organization so that it can sight its market more efficiently; Ford devotes little thought to merchandising, preferring to make such a wow of a howitzer that the market will get into the line with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford v. G. M. C. | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...course "Katja" has great odds to face. It is advertised as being a visual and auricular knock out in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and points both east and west. Its producers announce it to Boston as the continental equivalent of what is known in contemporary parlance as a wow. And now "Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

Will admit he is a wow...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

Concerning others whose works have attained what is called the "Wow" (triumphant) class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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