Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberately insulted the Christian religion in his will. He bequeathed the usual minor legacies to his servants like any prosperous tradesman; also an annuity of ?52 ($145 at present rate of exchange) to an American relative . . . Not a thin dime to any 'form of ... charity in England ... or America . . . Instead, an instruction for publication of his love letters to an actress, and the balance on a scheme for remodeling the English language, the utter futility of which has been repeatedly shown by Gilbert Murray and others...
Within five years, all the Philippines are expected to get enriched rice. And other rice-eating nations are arranging to start programs of their own. The cost: 35? per mouth per year, most of which the people themselves pay in an extra dime added to the price of a 100-lb. sack of rice...
...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend an appalling amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, peer at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on helpless limestones...
When he was running a fruit stand across from Kansas City's Union Depot 40 years ago, Isaac Katz sold oranges at three for a dime. "But Ike," his customers would say, "the other boys get a nickel apiece." "Yeah," Ike would answer, "but they sell one and I sell three. See what I mean?" Ike's kid brother Mike saw exactly what he meant, and soon was running another cut-rate fruit stand nearby...
Washington's National Gallery celebrated its tenth anniversary last week with a stunning exhibition of the latest art works acquired by the Croesus-rich Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In the last five years, the foundation, financed by dime-store profits, has bought 116 paintings, 18 sculptures and more than 1,300 miniature bronzes. A few of them will eventually be parceled out to museums as far away as Honolulu, but most will become part of the National Gallery's permanent collection...