Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first paragraph allayed suspicion somewhat. It told of dentists, two U. S. dentists, itinerant in Ecuador. The next paragraph was rather dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less...
...workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...
...tools and implements such as needles, awls, fishhooks, etc., as well as a number of articles made of stone. In some mounds excavated by the same party a number of pieces of pottery were found together with stone pipes, ear plugs that show evidence of having been covered with copper, and several copper ornaments. Is this not worthy of mention...
...hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared for the stone, lay a copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect Cram gave a signal...
...Walkerton, Ind., a farmer opened a mound, disclosed eight skeletons, one of them clad in copper armor, lying feet together like spokes in a wheel. A giant for stature had a flint arrow head embedded in his skull. The bones appeared to be of Mound Builders...