Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over whisky sours in White Sulphur Springs' lavish Greenbrier Hotel, two big men talked earnestly. From a respectful distance, other governors and correspondents watched them. "There may be the Republican presidential ticket in 1952," said a reporter. "They might just toss a coin to see who gets top place." He was talking about California's Governor Earl Warren and Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff...
...corner of 85th Street, as pennies and nickels rattled into the coin box, Driver Coyne thought he spotted an arch foe: the cheapskate who tries to beat the fare. Angrily, he demanded the rest of the 7? fare. As angrily, the passenger shouted back that he had paid in full. Coyne gave up: "All right, Jack. Forget...
...imposition on the customer and a practice unworthy of American labor," gave up trying to reform its patrons and help. Waiters, though they got a raise, had proved incapable of purging their features of all hope. And most customers had been plain miserable -uncomfortable if they slipped a clandestine coin under a saucer, more uncomfortable if they didn't. Said the C. & O. sternly: "Too many persons lack the courage to participate in an experiment that breaks with custom...
Once the embryo has entered the uterus (see above), it is still nine months before anyone knows for sure what sex it will be. Doctors have not had much luck at predicting; tossing a coin has proved as good a test as any ("Heads it's a boy; tails it's a girl"). At the gynecological congress, Belgium's Dr. Pierre A. Rosa told of a surefire test discovered by accident during some research on the placenta...
...Boston, frequent trips to Filene's bargain basement are almost as traditional as baked beans on Saturday night. Last week Wm. Filene's Sons Co. decided to improve on the tradition and bring the bargain basement to the customers. The store installed 14 custom-made coin vending machines in a new Greyhound bus terminal, to sell 20 different items ranging from a baby's rattle (75?) to men's & women's underwear...