Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Huett felt he was well on his way to winning his education. But for business reasons, he refuses to say exactly how much he has earned. When anyone asks him that, he holds out his coin box, smiles, and quotes a line from Gustav Schwab: "The springs of poetry give you much...
...Board Chairman David Sarnoff promised an RCA video tape recorder within two years, and a presentation, by the industry, of the case for color TV before the Federal Communications Commission within three months. He also departed from his prepared address to kick subscription TV in its coin box. Said Sarnoff: "I sincerely believe that pay-as-you-see television on a national basis will prove to be a snare and a delusion." Instead, Sarnoff urged the broadcasters to stay close, as always, to their advertisers...
Judge McLaughlin directed Plywacki to take a coin out of his pocket. "What does it say on the back?" he demanded. When Plywacki had read the legend, "In God We Trust," Judge McLaughlin made a little speech...
...regulation time, the Dartmouth game was tied, 6 to 6. The teams then played two scoreless five minute overtimes. After the second overtime, the captains decided to settle the game by flipping a coin. Dartmouth won the toss and a change to play defending Yale for this year's title...
Referendum. In Holly Springs, Miss., Police Chief Jimmie Warren explained why the streets are lined with unused marking meters: "A good salesman sold he city the meters, but they are very unpopular. By common consent, nobody puts a coin in and nobody gets a ticket...