Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philbert's mother finds him in the oven. (Caption: "So you stayed in there an' let the roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping...
...Justice Butler after Mr. Reed's contention that the Government has power to devalue the dollar as it saw fit: "In other words can Congress act to make a dime a dollar...
...feature of the Post's contest which it mentioned only in the tiniest type, was the contestant's obligation to send 10? with every group of six pictures, or $1 for the whole contest. For each dime he would receive a print of one of the drawings, "suitable for framing." Since some 40,000 started the contest and 30,000 saw it to a finish, the 10? rule netted the Post $33,000-a little more than double the sum paid out in prizes. That, however, did not make the contest a direct moneymaker. The Post spent...
...deserted. Last spring J. Eric Thompson of Chicago's Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
Ninety-seven thousand Pittsburgh schoolchildren gave a dime apiece toward the $5,000,000 already spent on the Cathedral. A Magyar woman gave the price of a month's meat. A millworker offered his all. But modern cathedrals are not built by small fry. To Pittsburgh's potent industrialists Chancellor Bowman had to turn for the huge chunks of cash which his dream demands. His trustees include Andrew William Mellon and his nephew Richard, Oilman Joseph Clifton Trees, Foodman Howard Heinz. Westinghouse Boardchairman Andrew Wells Robertson, Banker Henry Clay McEldowney, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir...