Word: bil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State's Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business in thrall to crooked labor unions and their underworld "gorillas...
Glancing at the picture of the tablet before him his printer's eye vaguely detected the date Oct. 14, 1838, worked into the scrawl. Closer inspection ingenious juggling, deciphered the writing, "BIL STUMPS STONE...
...Price recalled how in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers the famed Club was hoaxed. Samuel Pickwick unearthed a stone, found the inscription,"X BILST U M PSHI S.M. ARK." Much erudite discussion ensued, many translations were given. Tongue-in-cheek Author Dickens was guying scientific men. The translation was simply "Bil Stumps his mark...