Word: coined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yalemen and Sundry Boston columnists frequently point out, no Harvard Varsity has beaten a New Haven team since last spring. Winter weather doesn't seem likely to change the trend, but who Chief Boston's wrestlers face the Eli in the Blockhouse at 4 o'clock today, the coin could come down for a Crimson upset...
Reverse the Coin. But Dr. Oppenheimer would not have the scientists-even if they could-shut down the lid of their fearful Pandora's chest now, for treasures are there as well as imps of death: "Out of [science's] work there will come . . . things which will improve man's health, ease his labor, and divert and edify him. . . . There is no need to belabor this point, nor its obverse-that out of science there will come, as there has in this last war, a host of instruments of destruction...
What Dr. Oppenheimer has great hopes for is "another side of the coin." Perhaps "there are elements in the way of life of the scientist which . . . have hope in them for bringing dignity and courage and serenity to other...
...James ("Toothpick Charlie") Kilpatrick, 84, once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
...Nelson Parker, 3, of Orange, N.J., sent to play in the basement of his apartment building because the weather was bad outside, strangled to death in a coin-operated washing machine...