Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union...
...Several "gold clause" cases in which holders of Liberty bonds, payable in "gold coin" but called up for redemption in "legal tender," contend that the redemption call was invalid and that the U. S. still owes them interest on the bonds...
...Irish Free State. Third and final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled. Canada had nosed out the U. S. by one point: Belgium was third. Irish Free State fourth and The Netherlands an ignominious fifth...
...told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom he had bet $12,000, had won but had been disqualified. Rooney went on talking football. On another occasion he nipped a coin to decide where he would place...
...invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee's meters, soon added 348 more. When indignant citizens squawked, a district...