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...South African florin will be worth 11.30016 grains of pure gold and 100 cents will make a florin. But that will not be all. Patriotically last week Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog proposed that ten florins shall make a rand. He was roundly cheered. In the Netherlands there is no rand. From South Africa's famed Rand comes every year more than half the world's new gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Dutch Blood & Florins | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...from your issue of Jan. 7, page 16: ''Two sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Florin $2.91 Salmon

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Sow into Cow | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ungodly | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...feature of the debate will be the award of the Coolidge prize. Florin the Coolidge fund medals are given each year to all men who speaks in a debate against either Yale of Princeton, and in addition a prize of $11100 is awarded to the speaker who has shown the most initiative and elevates in the preparation of the speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE TEAMS FOR BIG DEBATE TOMORROW | 3/20/1925 | See Source »

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