Word: coin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in the future. To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook-organ and nothing else...
...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...
Gloom prevailed in the Crimson gridiron camp yesterday with the announcement that the limit of Captain Torble Macdonald's participation in the Dartmouth clash Saturday would be the coin toss with Whit Miller of the Green...
...State Department had looked it over. Under "absolute" contraband were "all kinds of arms, ammunition, explosives, etc.," and articles for using or making them; "fuel of all kinds" and all "contrivances . . . articles . . . animals . . . ingredients" for using or making; all means of communication, tools, instruments, maps, machines; all "coin, bullion, currency, evidences of debt." Conditional contraband (i.e., to be sidetracked or commandeered by the British if they choose) were "all kinds of foods, foodstuffs, feed, forage and clothing...
Artist Curry himself devised the ingenious arrangement of ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family...