Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland game was much more even than the score would lead one to believe, for both teams played hard and fast and spills, "turns-on-a-dime," and terrific smashes were plentiful throughout...
...tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down over his bespectacled hazel eyes. His black, curly hair was awry and needed cutting. His hands were in his pockets, with one nickel, one dime and one quarter. Other people of other descriptions were milling and bumping around him with other gaits. Traffic was moving, rumbling and screeching. The earth quaked from subway trains and building blasting...
Children of the U. S. can count glibly, "five pennies are a nickel, two nickels are a dime;" but children of the Irish Free State must become even glibber. They must count in the following strange fashion...
...There are 13 letters in the name of the airplane (City of New York) which carries Racer Mears and Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer across Europe and Asia; 2) the 13 letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...
...refuse to contribute a dime to your present misfit university with its caste system and sexy characteristics. But to show you I am acting in good faith, I will agree to leave Cornell a million dollars if the fraternity and club system is completely abolished and the women students are given a separate college of their...