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Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nights in A Barroom is an old-fashioned Victorian melodrama played for all its worth and given a double edge of irony by its quaint moralism In the temperance spirit, the show offers beer for only a dime a glass. This is a most unusual dramatic production for Harvard, a piece of American social history as well as a piece of popular literature. You may never be able to see a piece of nineteenth century soap opera like this again, at least until it's produced on Masterpiece Theatre. At the Agassiz tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

...town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff, and at last lose their amazing power. Pencils and notebooks appear in the dime-store window: school lurks. The porch swing is taken down. And the summer of 1928 is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Summer of '28 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...putting off marriage because they are out of work. (Comic-strip art imitates life; marriage rates are tumbling because of unemployment.) In a new song, Hard Times, Arlo Guthrie croons: "I ain't got a nickel to call mine ... We ain't even got a lousy dime." Nobody is cracking any jokes about unemployment, but once again the old line is being heard: "When you're unemployed, it's a recession. When I'm unemployed, it's a depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNEMPLOYMENT: America's New Jobless: The Frustration of Idleness | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

BUCK ROGERS belongs to the past Science fiction the United States has finally struggled to a state of respectability, shedding the dime-store pulp magazine image it acquired in the 20s and '30s. Gone are the lurid magazine covers of space ships, ray guns and over-endowed Galactic princesses; the romantic, swashbuckling days of Depression science fiction have passed, replaced by serious literary efforts--carefully written and structured novels and short stories...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Facing A New Audience | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...properties that virtually ringed Harvard holdings, also stayed aloof from both Cambridge politics and her neighbors. Through land speculation and stock earnings Cohen became a millionare several times over. However, Bradlee recalls, "If you saw her on the street you would never have known she had a dime...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Part I: The Rise of Eddie Crane | 2/7/1975 | See Source »

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