Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nickel slot-machines that can analyze your personality are just around the corner, now that Eliot D. Chapple '31, former research follow in Psychology, has perfected his Interaction Chronograph...
...dispute" on Feb. 2. Thus he could legally clap the mines shut on the miners' strike day, April 1. Last year he had won a 10?-a-ton royalty for an old-age and welfare fund (now swollen into a $29.5 million kitty). But not a nickel of the fund "had been distributed. John and the operators had not been able to agree on how to distribute it. That was one of this year's beefs...
Student refusal to be dominated by the nickel-snatching pay telephone has caused the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. to once again blow off its annual steam...
...best way to get a cheap call, though, is to spin pennies in the nickel slot." With a smug grin on his face and a tone of confidence in his voice, he explained that "the penny bounces over the coin return slot...
There is also the more profitable method of plugging the return slot. Jingling a pocketful of coins, the nickel-grabbing Yardling added that there was, however, the danger of a jail sentence if you get caught. Risking the machine was scornfully described as a "cheap trick...