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...nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead of side view. After dies for a new coin are complete it takes five...
...TIME, always resourceful and concise, coin a word describing the occupation of a person who lives on an income from investments...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...
Chorus of one of the first Dutch popular songs composed to honor the newborn Princess is intelligible only if one knows that a riks is a coin worth 2½ gulden. The chorus...
...revictualing the besieged, and bombing and machine-gunning the hordes of rebels. Planes left every day from the base at Diredawa, 200 miles away, and supplied the men with a total of 130 tons of supplies, nine tons of munitions and 88,000 thalers [$47,000 in silver coin]. At the same time they dropped abundant quantities of bombs on the enemy, who were trying to close in on the besieged...