Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the subway entrance in front of the Waldori is now closed, despite the fact that it is prominently labelled "To Boston." Now that we have to pay a dime for an eight minute ride to town, we ought at least to have the facilities offered by the former nickel fare. Moreover, I am sure that residents in the vicinity will appreciate action by the students to have the entrance reopened. Can't we get in touch with 131 Milk street and have our needed accommodations restored? HAROLD W. CONNOLLY...
...square to Harvard square via Park street and Massachusetts avenue. The price is to be regulated according to the length of the haul, five cents for a short haul, ten for a long. Let us all hope that our objectives in Boston live not live not more than a nickel distant...
...Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more obvious liberation was opened. Russia is much like a small boy who has a job to do, but who, receiving the legacy of a dime, loses interest in that work which may only bring him a nickel...
Professor Richards with assistants has revised the atomic weights of oxygen, nitrogen, copper, nickel, calcium, sodium, and many other elements. During the past year he has undertaken several important investigations which will be continued during the present year...
...Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university to which he is to return, and the young prince, idealizing in the boyish delight of new freedom...