Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
...curious posters and dime novel covers used to publicize "Virgin Land" must not mislead you into thinking that this book is an entertaining collection of Americana. It is a serious analytical work based on profound research into American history, not light pleasure reading...
Finally, the dime novel appeared with sterling characters of the Deadwood Dick and Buffalo Bill variety. This was the literature that percolated down to the masses and stimulated the young man to follow the setting sun through the Cumberland gap to the west...
...Howdy's platform: two Christmases and one schoolday a year; more pictures in history books; double sodas for a dime; plenty of movies...
...semi-retirement since last June, Radio Funnyman Fred Allen explained his reluctance to join the stampede to television. "Pioneers never make any money," said Allen. "Take Daniel Boone. He went through all those forests and didn't make a dime. Then the lumber companies came in and cleaned...