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Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's nothing so hot about these guys. They're a dime a dozen on every Harvard squad in every sport, and they don't get either headline or athletic scholarships. They may be suckers, but they're in a swell sport to do one badly needed good turn. They can give a loud and lusty bird to John Tunis. Larry Kelly, and their fellow hatchet men of the "College athletics stink" tribe...

Author: By Sponsor Kisw, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...train at Seattle one day last week stepped plump, upright Philip A. Benson, president of Brooklyn's big Dime Savings Bank. To nosy newshawks who asked him if it was true that bankers started wars he retorted: "Hooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...convincing that the committee lost interest. Yet the Party did not care to have its members know just how much it grosses. In discussing this committee hearing, its Daily Worker in Manhattan printed none of the totals, continued to beg readers to turn in "a dime a day for 100 days" to meet one of the Party's perennial emergencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dimes & Millions | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...later with Bob Fitzsimmons); and he learned the tricks of tunesmithing. This trade paid. In his time he has turned out 28 musical comedies, has written, among his 500 songs, such daisies as Goodbye, My Lady Love, What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times, he made-and spent-$1,500,000. Somewhere in France Is the Lily, a World War occasional, brought him $50,000. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, his most-famed favorite, sold 3,000,000 copies, still brings in royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Tintype | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...believe these stories about hamburgers selling for a dollar and a half. They cost a dime and they're not transparent or synthetic. . . . We have put a soul into this Fair. . . . It is the last word in the application of the genius of man. . . . Our Fair will not be remembered for any hootchy-kootchy dance-and a fan means nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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