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Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuernavaca, Mexico, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton, 38, filed papers to divorce husband No. 4, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. The prince hired a San Francisco lawyer to fight the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Brickbats & Bouquets | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...Lazaro Galdiano was a 13-year-old in his native village of Beiré, Spain, when he bought his first work of art-a terra cotta angel's head that cost less than a dime. Within a few hours, his rambunctious kid brother had smashed the piece for a joke. Jose, the son of a broke nobleman, found money hard to come by, but when he got his hands on cash he spent it on art. Through the years he became a professional art dealer and a multimillionaire, filled a palatial, 34-room house in Madrid with treasures. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Successful Brother | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Potential Mr. Americas are a dime a dozen down at the Indoor Athletic Building and Dillon Field House these weekday afternoons. Ninety-eight Colleges students and 15 men from the Law School--members of the Harvard Weightlifting and Gymnastics Society--are taking exercise to develop their muscles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Form Weightlifting Club, Exercise 'to Improve on Nature' | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

...possibilities of jobs for the February or June graduate," he continued, "they are a dime a dozen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Jobs Await February's Grads | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...Dime-Store Stuff." Most of the schools Reporter Shannon described had only potbellied or chunk stoves for heating. Most classrooms had only a single naked bulb for lighting, some had no electricity at all. There were gaping holes in both floors and ceilings, broken windowpanes, tattered shades, and only a few pieces ("dime-store stuff") of laboratory equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Over & Over & Over | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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