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Word: bargain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain on semi-bankruptcy terms. They met a bargaining creditor and went home without result. But the Italians came and laid their cards on the table-or at least gave that impression. They said, "We are hard up. Here's an exact statement of our financial position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Italian Debt | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...bargain counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Wit | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...AMAZING BARGAIN! 900 LITTLE BLUE BOOKS AT THE ASTOUNDINGLY LOW PRICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lucky Number | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fippanys* | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...human eyes," exclaimed a third. Shortly afterward Senor Bartolome Ginocchio, breeder of fine cattle, looked upon Faithful, and his cockles of heart rose up with pleasure, and straightway there was no thought in him but to have Faithful for his own. So he went to the owner and a bargain was struck. The price was $60,000-the highest price ever paid anywhere for a Shorthorn bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Argentina | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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