Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South, farmers were still planting root crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
...weeks, Mary and her husband shook tin cans with coin slits at passers-by until they had acquired $3,000. Gradually Mary and her neighbors got neighborly. In her first year she held parties in her front parlor, taught cooking classes in tenements, organized a penny bank, a children's reading room. In between she mopped floors...
Willie to William. For Willie was not born a reformer. Kansas was a satrapy in the expanding empire of the Santa Fe Railroad, and coin from that corporation's treasure house financed individual political fortunes and augmented the general prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which...
...instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
...passing one of the many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...