Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor of Laws . . . or a Professor of Physick and Anatomy, whichever the . . . Overseers and Corporation shall judge to be best." Appalled by his grammar, the Overseers nevertheless spent 34 years collecting the money. By 1815 all $7500 was in the till, so the Corporation flipped a spare half-dime, decided that it should keep the skeletons looked in the closet, and went out and hired Massachusetts Chief Justice Isaac Parker as Royall Professor...
Higher Education. In Oakley, Idaho, a schoolteacher took her pupils on a field trip to demonstrate the pitfalls of gambling, put a dime in a slot machine, hit the jackpot...
Valley Christian's pastor has a direct, put-up-or-shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...
...game in football, tomorrow's clash is still the most important one of the year for the hordes of Yale and Harvard students and alumni who will flood New Haven to see it. Regardices of past records, any alumnus of either institution will tell you that upsets are a dime a dozen in the service, and they'll produce the records to prove...
...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...