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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

Times would indeed appear to be bad. You can see Ethel Barrymore, Professor Einstein and Tony the Wonder Horse at the Palace Theatre for 5?, with a free lunch thrown in. Roxy's theatre is showing four feature films and giving away a room and bath for a dime. Another equally disastrous theatrical season, it is prophesied, and the show business will be back to the magic lantern. But there are people who still have plenty of money. They are Policeman Meshbesher (Hugh O'Connell) and those other fortunates who have been able to buy a seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...buck to a dime, you're wrong, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...collecting right now, your buck to my dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...First deal: sent with a dime to buy a quart of milk in a glass pitcher, he received a silver 3C-piece in change. Returning he tripped on the curb, fell, bit his tongue, broke the pitcher, spilt the milk, and swallowed the 3c-piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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