Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination of the Jonkers, London experts last week threw doubt on the first theory that it had once been a chip of the Cullinan, world's No. 1 diamond, found in 1905 only three miles from Jonkers' diggings. The Jonkers is bluer and purer, so pure that Diamond Corp. officials were hoping someone rich and ostentatious would come forward to buy it as a single stone. Otherwise it will be sent, possibly to Amsterdam, to be cut up into small diamonds to fit smaller purses...
Experts last week christened the new diamond the "Jonker Stone," guessed that it may be a lost chip off its onetime neighbor, the Cullinan. The Cullinan made nine big stones of which the two biggest are now in the King of England's sceptre and crown...
...King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make up his mind to chip...
Alma Jacobsen, whose letter is printed in Aug. 21, TIME, must have been extremely unfortunate in her experiences; or the possessor of a "chip on the shoulder," which, quite naturally, brings misfortune in her wake. A few corrections should be made upon her letter...
Milwaukee's troubles stemmed largely from Mayor Hoan's refusal to cut city salaries beyond the voluntary 10% deduction set aside for relief. Taxpayers had to resort to the initiative & referendum to chip $7,000,000 off the 1933 budget. Municipal employes went unpaid during April, May and June while, the city hoarded cash to meet its bond interest payments. A grand jury, discovering a $500,000 embezzlement of city funds, indicted Comptroller Louis M. Kotecki for failing to discover the loss in his treasury audits. One day two months ago Kotecki shot himself dead after wounding...