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...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...
...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...
...Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
Such movies are not important, or even as entertaining and well-made as a little more working time could make them. They are just the humble small change of American cinema. But the change, however small, is honest coin; whereas too many of cinema's million-dollar checks are signed in invisible ink and made of ersatz rubber...