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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Usage:

Almost every student in the University knows to his inconvenience that the subway entrance in front of the Waldori is now closed, despite the fact that it is prominently labelled "To Boston." Now that we have to pay a dime for an eight minute ride to town, we ought at least to have the facilities offered by the former nickel fare. Moreover, I am sure that residents in the vicinity will appreciate action by the students to have the entrance reopened. Can't we get in touch with 131 Milk street and have our needed accommodations restored? HAROLD W. CONNOLLY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organized Subway-Riders. | 10/3/1919 | See Source »

...fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more obvious liberation was opened. Russia is much like a small boy who has a job to do, but who, receiving the legacy of a dime, loses interest in that work which may only bring him a nickel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SISTER OF DEMOCRACIES | 5/15/1917 | See Source »

...Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie's Golden Moment" is almost as bad as a story can be. It is to a good dime novel as a melodrama of the movies to a real tragedy. As for Mr. Burk's fragmentary "Delay," a Senior editor should know better than to set such an example of halfdone work...

Author: By W. A. Neilson ., | Title: Slight Laud for Current Advocate | 3/17/1916 | See Source »

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