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  2. Category:1900s neologisms - Wikipedia

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  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Easy going; jovial; cheerful e.g. One movie reviewer refer to the hero of a film A Stranger from Somewhere as a Breezy Westerner [56] brillo Someone who lives fast and is a big spender [8] broad. Main article: Woman. Expression used solely by men to refer to a woman and widely considered offensive by women [59] bronx cheer. Main article:Blowing ...

  4. The English Dialect Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The six volumes appeared one at a time over eight years from 1898 to 1905, announced as "being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years and founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed".

  5. History of advertising - Wikipedia

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    I can give it to you in three words, it is 'salesmanship in print'". [60] Lasker and Kennedy used this concept with the 1900 Washer Co. (later Whirlpool). Their campaign was so successful that, within four months of running the first ad, they attracted additional clients and their "advertising spend" went from $15,000 a year to $30,000 a month.

  6. List of English-language idioms of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late-19th century, and have become unfamiliar since.. As the article list of idioms in the English language notes, a list of idioms can be useful, since the meaning of an idiom cannot be deduced by knowing the meaning of its constituent words.

  7. New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 - Wikipedia

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    In September 1909, employees at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went on strike. [5] On November 22, 1909, [5] a meeting was arranged at the Great Hall [6] of Cooper Union, where Local 25 voted for a general strike. [5] The meeting had been organized by International Ladies Garment Workers Union. [6]

  8. Time clock - Wikipedia

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    Another form of time clock [...] has the numbers of the employees fixed on the outer edge of a disk or ring and a record is made by the employee who shifts a revolving arm and punches his number upon entering the office and leaving. The working up of employees' time then becomes simply a matter of computation from printed figures.

  9. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The 1883 printing of the book contained 1,928 pages and was 8½ in (22 cm) wide by 11½ in (29 cm) tall by 4¼ in (11 cm) thick. The 1888 printing (revision?) is similarly sized, with the last printed page number "1935" which has on its back further content (hence, 1936th page), and closes with "Whole number of pages 2012".