Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
Dividend. In Paris, Tex., when a nickel was removed from two-year-old Rebecca Ann Allen's esophagus, the doctor also found a penny...
...reverence the machine and will not tilt, who use the flippers at the right time and the right place. When the final score is all added up in the end, the machine, with its unfailing precision, indicates how many more games can be played without the insertion of a nickel...
...they were blown out of the depression. The undisturbed rock layers of the region are horizontal, or nearly so, while the strata near the crater dip downward from the rim. The geologists found no meteoric iron, but they did find chunks of peculiar rock containing 3% of nickel that may have been part of a "stony" meteor...
Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...