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[ noun ] a fractional monetary unit of several countries
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)In Chicago , some time ago , Mr._H. , age 27 , a diabetic since he was six , stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' - a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent - sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for $ 306 as a cure-all . (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)New_Product_Introduction_for_Small_Business_Owners , 30 cents ; Developing_and_Selling_New_Products , 45 cents ; U.S._Government_Purchasing_,_Specifications_,_and_Sales_Directory , 60 cents , are available from the Superintendent_of_Documents , U.S._Government_Printing_Office , Washington 25 , D.C. . New_Product_Introduction_for_Small_Business_Owners , 30 cents ; Developing_and_Selling_New_Products , 45 cents ; U.S._Government_Purchasing_,_Specifications_,_and_Sales_Directory , 60 cents , are available from the Superintendent_of_Documents , U.S._Government_Printing_Office , Washington 25 , D.C. . New_Product_Introduction_for_Small_Business_Owners , 30 cents ; Developing_and_Selling_New_Products , 45 cents ; U.S._Government_Purchasing_,_Specifications_,_and_Sales_Directory , 60 cents , are available from the Superintendent_of_Documents , U.S._Government_Printing_Office , Washington 25 , D.C. . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)A message of less_than fifteen words to Bennington cost twenty-five cents . |
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[ noun ] a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)I raised some kale by hocking the good clothes I had left_over from my respectable uptown life , but when that was gone I did n't have a cent . There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron_worker who 'd never gouged a cent off a fellow_worker in my thirty years in the movement . |
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