Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing interest at 7.30 per cent.: used of certain notes issued by the United States Government. See II.
- noun The popular name for certain notes issued by the government of the United States in 1861, 1864, and 1865, redeemable in three years, and bearing interest at 7.30 per cent.—that is, 2 cents a day on $100.
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Examples
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His apartment in Brooklyn sat across from a middle school, and twice a day, at seven-thirty in the morning and at three in the afternoon, a rush of noise surrounded his house.
Visiting 2010
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I think we made it home about seven or seven-thirty p.m.
"You grow, you roar. Although disguised, I know you." greygirlbeast 2010
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The next morning at seven-thirty, he was outside my house with his overstuffed backpack on his thin shoulders, waiting to walk me to school.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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His apartment in Brooklyn sat across from a middle school, and twice a day, at seven-thirty in the morning and at three in the afternoon, a rush of noise surrounded his house.
Visiting 2010
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Kathryn would be back up here by seven-thirty, and then she'd have hours.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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She hated getting up at seven-thirty, even during Christmas vacation.
Excerpt: The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano 2010
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The following Friday, Stefàn left his office at seven-thirty.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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The following Friday, Stefàn left his office at seven-thirty.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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No vowels could be bought or sold to stop it—the nightly show ushered in my chronic case of the evening baby blues, which came on like clockwork at seven-thirty P.M.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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Kathryn would be back up here by seven-thirty, and then she'd have hours.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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