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Word: nickel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push Button Psycho-Analysis... | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Winter Is Now Gone | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

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