Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department estimated that the amount of money of all kinds in the U. S. totaled $8,600,062,824 of which $4,609,304,678 was in gold coin and bullion and $2,104,396,595 in Federal Reserve notes...
...curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from the temple...
...where Professor Conant speaks on "The Early Christians and their Architecture." After a number of indecisive starts first in one direction and then another, by which erratic motion passersby may penetrate the disguise of the Vagabond, the matter must in all probability be settled by the tossing of a coin...
...Washington authorities merely send carefully phrased messages to the newspapers, and insist that there must be assurance that American property rights will not be jeopardized, before they will submit to any judgment upon these rights. Arbitration under such circumstances resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...