Word: coins
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February 23: The Crimson wins an early-morning coin toss with Dartmouth and chooses home-court advantage in the first and last (don't ask) Ivy Tournament. For its part, the Big Green receives the number one seed in the tourney and an accompanying first round bye. If all goes as planned, the two will meet in a re-match Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the tourney's final round...
...Coin Toss...
Because Harvard and Dartmouth completed the regular season in a 9-3 tie, a coin toss was held Sunday morning, with the winner of the flip awarded the option of home court advantage throughout the tournament or a first-round...
Many Americans wonder where their money goes. So, it turns out, does the Government. According to a study commissioned by the Federal Reserve Board and made public last week, about $154 billion in currency and coin had been put into circulation in the U.S. as of last spring. But about 60% of that cash supply, or at least $96 billion, seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Americans are probably carrying around no more than $36 billion in their pockets or purses to make day-to-day purchases. Companies, meanwhile, probably have no more than $22 billion stashed in drawers, safes...
...pickings of a random sampling of her work. A description of a Canal Street flea market from New York Places and Pleasures: "Inside, a sizable jungle of loose white and tan shoelaces, Dracula banks which need batteries for pushing out a pale green hand to grasp a coin, among the books one volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young man in an exquisite hat and beautifully made dress keeps circulating among American women asking for a household job which would include cooking, cleaning, dress- and hat-making...