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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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Some Memories of Daddy – Jack London 2010

  • She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • She rummaged around the hospital and found a stack of twenty-cent Best Detective magazines from 1930.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Of course, his mother bought him the twenty-cent plane.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

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