Word: sawbucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools. Teen-agers got a daily earful of such airborne blasts as: "Want to hear about a contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample promotion tagline: "The little red school house is-well-like...
...meet a guy in the paddock and he takes you aside. "Listen," he says, "I got something in the next race. It's a shoo-in, a boat race, in the tank, the fix is on. And drop a sawbuck on for me. I'll meet you here later...
...been misdirecting the good people of Malden for long enough already; what you need is now vistas." So when I am offered by the CRIMSON, the eunuque opportunity of selecting the winner of the Harvard Dartmouth embroglio, I says, "What's in it for me." He says "a double sawbuck and a fin" and I says Harvard 21 Dartmouth...