Word: coined
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cong. Globe, 1861-62 (Speeches on legal-tender bills).- (c) The Republicans passed an act almost unanimously to retire greenbacks, Dec. 18, 1865: Nation, LXI, 380.- (d) March 18, 1869. Congress passed an act solemnly pledging itself to make early provision for redemption of the United States notes in coin: E. C. Mason's Veto Power, S 61.- (e) President Grant urged Congress to retire the legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1874.- (f) President Hayes...
...alone might safely coin silver at a proper ratio: A. S. Stokes, Joint Metallism; W. C. Oates in Cong, Record XXV, App., 152-155. - (a) The proper ratio would be that which would most nearly coincide with market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
...another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against our lips or minds, while the alien word has all the subtle emphasis and beauty of some new-minted coin of ancient Syracuse. In our critical estimates we should be on our guard against this charm...
...advantage which Yale gained by winning the toss and her choice of goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits...
...hundred dollars, have been received and active measures are being taken to give graduates and undergraduates every chance to subscribe. Boxes have been placed just inside the door of Memorial Hall and very near the door of the Foxcroft Club; in these boxes may be placed subscriptions in coin which cannot conveniently sent by mail. We would emphasize again the fact that no subscription is too small to be a worthy part of the fund. The main point is that the subscriptions may be general and spontaneous. The beauty of such a fund is that it is not forced...