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Word: centedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profitable method of employing his talents. He now sits comfortably at home while industrious candy dealers and phlegmatic pharmacists from the Alleghenies to the Rockies sell candy bars with the name "Red Grange" inscribed on them--sell candy bars and pay him for whom they are named 50 per cent of the profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDY AND THE MAN | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition of the English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger of having its students receive no more training in English literature and composition than just enough to obtain a creditable grade in a college entrance examination the Engineering School has decided to make one more advanced English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING ENGLISH | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...hadn't a cent in my pant...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/17/1927 | See Source »

...clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Twenty-cent limited"?the Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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