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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...criticism of Liberty Jones with an article in the New York World-Telegram: ". . . I knew that to be what I wanted it to be it must have a childlike candor, a simplicity, an innocence. ... I wanted the play to have a pristine quality-to look like a fresh-minted dime and to spin like one. I think it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Second feature, "Dancing on a Dime," is a lot of catchy music and clever dancing centered about a defunct W.P.A. theatre project with Bob Paige and Grace McDonald, a couple of young unknowns, finding some way to finance the show when Uncle Same decides not to compete with Shubert or Minsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/7/1941 | See Source »

...strictly non-profit enterprise, said Hollywood; the films are to be distributed free for exhibition in the movie theatres to be built at all training camps. Major Nathan Levinson of the Signal Corps Reserve put it more bluntly, growled: "Nobody's going to make a dime out of this, and if they think they are, they'd better pull their horns in right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Movies for Armies | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...second feature, "Dancing on a Dime," is not worth a nickel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/21/1940 | See Source »

Love-on-a-Dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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