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by Kevin Burton “Do you want to see a movie?” my wife Jeannette will ask me, thinking of a fun diversion. “What’s playing?” I will ask. “I don’t know,” she will say, exasperated. “If I don’t know what’s playing, how do I know if I want to go?” I will say, as …
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by Dictionary Scoop Have you listened to teenagers talk lately? Their vocabulary is full of words we don’t quite understand. But come on, we did it too: every decade has had its own set of slang words and expressions. Today, we look back at ten slang words and expressions that have defined each decade from …
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by Dictionary Scoop The Great Depression, a period of economic instability that lasted from the early 1930s until the end of the decade, was one of the most challenging times in American history. Kickstarted by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, the recession hit hard, bankrupting thousands of businesses and leaving no one …
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