Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official domain, Secretary Mellon reported that the public debt had been cut by $905,883,703 in fiscal 1928. The movement of gold from the U. S. was reflected in a decline of 108.8 millions in the Treasury's bullion & coin, and a decrease of 324.3 millions in the bullion & coin held by the Treasury for the Federal Reserve Board...
...team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln...
...Kitty Hawk that cold December week, Wilbur and Orville Wright tossed a coin to decide which would try the first flight. Wilbur won, got into the machine, rose a few feet. After three seconds the machine stalled. Next it was Orville's turn. He succeeded; he sustained the flight of a kite...
Conservative U. S. journals printed the story as a matter of minor, passing interest. New York's Daily News (tabloid) saw. however, a chance to coin a scurrility, headlined: "DeadEye Davy Bags Elephant in Afric Wilds...
Lighted Cigarets. A coin dropped in the slot of a new machine makes a cigaret fall with its end against an incandescent electric coil. The heat lights the cigaret, which forthwith drops out of the machine for the buyer to smoke on his matchless way. One William Cohen of Brooklyn invented the device...