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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Buyers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dimes, Deficits | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...John D. goes out for golf. The whole year he never loses more than three balls. When he wins he does a happy little Charleston. If a flapper is around he may remark: "You ought to kiss my hand for that." The flapper usually complies, and gets a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Actually $2.15, since a shiny dime is imbedded in the cover of each copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...this house ever catched on fire, the first one I'd rush in and save is you, Ma. . . . Ma, can I have a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: National Figure | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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