Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was only an earnest of the 40 pages of eye-popping photographic showmanship in rotogravure through which Look's, lookers could proceed for a dime. Purchasers of Look's first number saw, among other things...
...district so tough that it has long been known as "Hell's Kitchen." At ten o'clock, just as the pair got back into their car, a youth jumped on the right running board, asked a tip for watching the car. Importer Gambinossi gave his companion a dime to hand him. "Cheap skate!" snarled the young man. Gambinossi got out. At once four other hoodlums jumped on him. All five gave him a severe beating. When he got away, he limped to the nearest police station...
...possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing up on a farm in Carthage, Mo., he practiced for hours at a time a form of ingrown athletic solitaire which consisted of throwing stones at a barn door until he could unfailingly hit knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell...
...regular line of succession. When elections came round, however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...
...brief handwritten autobiography of the noted "dime novelist," Boratio Alger '52, written while he was a student, is also on exhibit in Widener with a collection of historic relics of the past century of student life at Harvard...