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Word: nickel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theater, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: College Has 300 Year Food Problem | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have a nickel cup of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight-Million-Dollar Baby | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Last Resort. In Des Moines, after Donald E. Mosher broke into a filling station and found nothing of value, he put his last nickel into the telephone, dialed police to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Harvard and Yale do their share of worrying about the world. Today we can let go. Nothing beyond the rim of the Bowl is worth a plugged nickel just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LXVI | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...plus a fixed fee, McShain was the winner again. The highest bid was a fixed fee of $950,000; the lowest, $100,000, was McShain's. Said McShain: "I figured nobody would go as low as that, so I bid it. I may not make a nickel on it, but I've done so much work in Washington, I just thought I'd like to add the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: White House Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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