Word: slot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dropped a coin in the turnstile, walked out on to the platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
Appearing with his captive before Magistrate Charles Solomon. Milli explained how it was done: the ingenious and germ-defying young man, who said that he was Chester Madzenski, dropped a squashed penny into the slot; it stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...
...Buffalo, Barcalo Manufacturing Co. made and marketed a combination screw driver, screw cap wrench, punch opener, hammer, bottle opener, cutting edge and slot-to-make-a-can-pouring...
Burnham also finished his scrap off in about seven minutes. He has been doing a very good job substituting for Jim Redman in the 121 pound slot, garnering five points in both of the first two matches. Redman, however, will probably be able to return to his usual position after mid-years...
...four "H" men returning to the lineup are Captain Don Marvin, number five against Yale last year, Dave De Kruif, who ranked sixth against Yale, "Sonny" Lyell, captain of the tennis team who played in the number eight slot against the Elis last winter, and Orme Wilson, ranking number nine a year...