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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circuitry was still needed. Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head of a pin. A 5-watt amplifier is about the size of a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Educated Crystals | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

CREDIT CARDS are spreading to dime stores. S. S. Kresge Co., the third biggest chain (after Woolworth, W. T. Grant), will offer charge plates in 68 Michigan area stores. Woolworth is also testing charge plates; Grant has introduced them in all its stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Busy Line. In Indianapolis, charged with burglary when police caught him taking a phone apart with hammer, screw driver, mallet and can opener, James H. Coleman explained: "I was just trying to recover a dime I lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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