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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechan ics in Out Our Way, and Gluyas Williams' middle-aged suburbanites - you have about exhausted the field. Yet, characteristically, Webster disagrees with the critics who think today's sexed-up, thrill-happy comics are a menace to adolescent morals. Says he : "I used to hide my dime novels. Eventually I made the discovery that good books were better. I don't think it matters a hoot." The Quiet Life. During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing of that ultra-American generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Average Man | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...Washington even the most devout Democrats regretfully observed that after six months in office and two months of peace, Harry Truman was doing little better than muddling through. Bouncy Maury Maverick, the Texas ex-Congressman now in charge of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., bought himself a dime-store compass and cracked: "There are so many times when I don't know in which direction I'm going that I have to take it out and look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Muddling Through | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Would fit on the face of a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plug | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...highly refined T tick. Weak only at the ends, it boasts an undeniable line ribbed with two All Americas, 215-lb. Tackle Al Wistert (ex-Michigan) and 220-lb. Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State) makes the club click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Philadelphia Story | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...spittoons and later by delivering special delivery letters on his bicycle. Most lucrative customer was glamorous Miss Josephine Barnabee, whose big, yellow fancy-house on Two Street was the most refined establishment of its kind in town. Miss Josephine got more specials than anyone else and always tipped a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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