Word: coins
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Beleagured San Salvador has found a champion in the shape of North Arizona University archaeologist Charles Hoffman, who has been conducting a dig near the alleged landing site. So far Hoffman has found a Spanish coin dating from approximately 1474, broken Spanish crockery, belt buckles, and ship planking nails...
...newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply to ABC's recent three-hour documentary on the nuclear threat. Says Irvine: "I'd love to do a program showing the other side of that coin...
...judge, derives from the assumption that today's watershed in your lives marks the beginning of experience. It simply isn't so. Life's most meaningful experiences are those of early childhood -- experimentation with fire, ache of first grief, joy of love returned, and the other side of that coin, anguish of affection repulsed. So far as adult experience is concerned, to one who will bear a few of its stripes to the grave, it seems a thing to be avoided. Thomas North put it pithily in his introduction to (Plutarch's) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: 'Experience...
...Digital computers came to Harvard in March 1983, the result of a contract between Digital and Harvard for a joint study on the use of coin operated word processing. According to terms of the agreement, the machines are University property because the contract expired in March, Law said...
...melodramatic perhaps, but this is really the only clear picture we get of Ben. Some lucky coin--to which Death owns the rights--draws much closer scrutiny...