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Word: nickels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...person puts a nickel in the slot And pushes a little handle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...uncle has the nickel free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Last week educators, sociologists and physicians met in Chicago and learnedly discussed The Family in Wartime. The delegates were not prepared to bet a plugged nickel on the family's immediate prospects. Already, declared Professor Willard Waller of Columbia University, although the U. S. was not at war, the national-defense program had begun to raise hell with U. S. families. He ticked off wartime dangers: > Disruption of relations between parents and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Family in Wartime | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sucker's Game | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Followed by tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lebensraum for the Straphanger | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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