Word: mint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver's flat plain a little sand hill stands up, slopes away to the east. On the edge of the sand hill is a park called the Civic Centre. Long have its buildings been symbols of Denver pride, the weathered State Capitol looking down on a U. S. Mint, a Public Library, an open air Greek Theatre. Last week Denver pride looked to a new and climactic building in the Civic Centre. Facing the Capitol was a fine new white granite City & County Building. It had been abuilding for three years and now its bronze doors (world's largest) were...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
...League majority, flatly disagreeing with Chairman Janssen, was headed by Economist George Bassett Roberts of Manhattan's National City Bank, successor on the commission to his father George Evan Roberts, who was director of the U. S. Mint under Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Upholding the gold standard, the majority, or Roberts report, urged every nation that can do so to stick to gold, flayed proposals for bimetallism or a return to the silver standard...
...Tick On was pocketed behind the field. It took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled up lame and Fator could see Burgoo King, running well with the leaders, in third place, behind Economic and Brandon Mint as they started down the back stretch...
...moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...