Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Autocars, plural trade name, registered, well-advertised (not plastically), of motor trucks manufactured by Autocar Company (est. 1897), Ardmore, Pa., invariably, insistently begun with capital...
...word in plural form likewise questionable. ... As an advertised product there is only one Autocar...
...plural of Mussolini is Mussolini...
...staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...
...Young Turks simply cannot afford plural wives, and so they are generally content with their new Civil Code, based on the Civil Code of Switzerland and absolutely forbidding polygamy...