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I tell you, you leaning back in a big leather chair talkin 'treasure with a two-bit cigar in your mouth an' a twenty-cent drink beside you, why that's like treasure.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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After parting from Tim Hagan Young Dick spent a busy hour or so looking up one, Marcovich, a Slavonian schoolmate whose father ran a chop-house in which was reputed to be served the finest twenty-cent meal in the city.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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If it was too low, he would send the check for the amount I had figured; and I would have twenty-cent lunches to make out.
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She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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A twenty-cent (paradigm) shift seems to have happened somewhere along the line, and no one seems to have recognized it.
A Publishing Ecosystem? Sharon Bakar 2005
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So, the U.S. is gonna be in big trouble when our labor force has to compete with their twenty-cent an hour working wage.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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So, the U.S. is gonna be in big trouble when our labor force has to compete with their twenty-cent an hour working wage.
U.S. Population Boom Goes Unregulated by Federal Government Because We Need Cheap Labor 2006
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Of course, his mother bought him the twenty-cent plane.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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