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Following a nip-and-tuck fight for the J.V. spot, Charlie Loring's Freshmen will race as the second boat tomorrow, having won a coin toss from Bill Allen's crew. Both crews finished in a dead heat in Wednesday's time trial which was to decide the contest. The third contestant for the J.V. position, Shaw's boat, finished a poor third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews to Race Tech, Cornell in Triangular Regatta on Charles | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

...Flip a coin, consult a crystal...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...boss's 57th birthday, the mighty House of Bemberg was raided. In Buenos Aires last week, over the protests of Otto Bemberg, Argentine federal police ransacked the vaults, carted off records, securities, correspondence, bars of gold and sacks of coin from the Crédito Industrial y Comercial, banking center of the Bemberg empire. Later they frisked other Bemberg strongholds in Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Fall of the Bembergs | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...large, Marshal Tito's land has no use for coin or currency, store or tavern. The people barter. "My dollars," wrote Pribichevich, "are just dirty pieces of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Inside the Fortress | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

This week we put in our preference lists of billets, which presented quite a problem. One of our classmates was undecided between requesting U. S. shore duty or a destroyer. We finally agreed to put it to a coin-fipping test, heads for shore duty, tails for destroyer. It took him four flips before heads came up! Another one of our friends requested destroyer duty and felt happy about it until he saw that picture of a pitching lincan at Potter this week. He's been scasick ever since...

Author: By Mids E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/14/1944 | See Source »

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