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Notable new words coined the year you were born
In honor of Dictionary Day, here are notable new words coined the year you were born
1920: Chemical weapon, fascista
1921: Capital gain, sales tax
1922: Café society, gestalt
1923: Bathtub gin, demand deposit
1924: Malarkey, scofflaw
1925: Cosmic ray, Paul Bunyan
1926: Nervous Nellie, Protestant ethic
1927: Anti-Red, boondoggle
1928: Astronautics, drill team
1929: Antilife, in-line engine
1930: Bathysphere, Hooverville
1931: Jehova's Witness, skid row
1932: New Deal, Purple Heart
1933: Angiogram, barking mad
1934: Analytic philosophy, gestapo
1935: Dust bowl, parking meter
1936: Anasazi, delta wave
1937: Blitzkrieg, pizzazz
1938: Electroshock, Rastafarianism
1939: B

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