Word: coined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers Field Varsity football practice yesterday afternoon, but the squad was running hot. At the end of a soggy but spirited workout which kept the white slippery pigskin whipping through the darkness, Coach Dick Harlow announced that converted tackle Nick Rodis would be acting field captain to call the coin for the Rutgers kickoff tomorrow...
...When the coin spines at 2 o'clock, it will mark the fifty-first time that the Crimson and the Big Green have met and the first time since 1942 that Dartmouth eleven has played in the Stadium...
...Reilly?" said the sage of the age as he Coombs his Scully scarching for a proper rejoinder. "Just to show you how I Felt. I will pick it straight as Lazzaro because we can't Moffie this one. It will be no Halliday but by DeFilipo the coin it will be Rt Ro Diverto and Harvard 14 Holy Cross...
Hepcat Hurdle. On the West Coast, some jukebox operators upped their price to 10? a record. In San Francisco, Jukebox King Jack Ehrlich reported some resistance to dime-a-record, three-for-a-quarter players. But in San Jose the new dime jukeboxes paid for their coin-box alterations in a week, showed a 50% increase in gross take...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...