Search Details

Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Would fit on the face of a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plug | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...highly refined T tick. Weak only at the ends, it boasts an undeniable line ribbed with two All Americas, 215-lb. Tackle Al Wistert (ex-Michigan) and 220-lb. Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State) makes the club click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Philadelphia Story | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...spittoons and later by delivering special delivery letters on his bicycle. Most lucrative customer was glamorous Miss Josephine Barnabee, whose big, yellow fancy-house on Two Street was the most refined establishment of its kind in town. Miss Josephine got more specials than anyone else and always tipped a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Bookkeeper Francis S. Street took over a broken-down fiction magazine. They added a few magazines of their own, and reached a pulp peak during the long presidency of Smith's son, Ormond, who loved fine wines and rare first editions. Ormond Smith kept presses busy pouring out dime novels (they usually cost a nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Bottles | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...from Pulp. Just like the dime novel, the pulp magazines had their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Bottles | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Previous | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | Next