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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Museum of Modern Art; 3) a bull market in art books (262 were published in 1939). During the past three years the No. 1 U. S. source of popular knowledge of U. S. art has been LIFE, which has reproduced for the man-in-the-street's weekly dime some 452 paintings (usually in full color) by U. S. artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cranbrook Show | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Dime At A Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross, Wilhelmina Drives Start Slowly | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

...added that it might be easier for students to contribute just a dime or so at a time, or the change from buying a daily paper, rather than making their donations in lump sums. Largest response yesterday came from Eliot House, with about $45 collected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross, Wilhelmina Drives Start Slowly | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...business that has 300,000 employes and 16,713,000 customers can turn around on a dime-or even on a $1,000 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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