Word: minted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privately-printed volumes have become so well-known as his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Last month the curtain was drawn from another characteristic Lawrence concealment when Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beating the release date on a book by 14 years, received Lawrence's $500,000 posthumous volume, The Mint, for The Saturday Review of Literature...
...terms of Lawrence's will, The Mint cannot be published until 1950. To comply with U. S. copyright laws and prevent printing, Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. printed twelve copies of the book, deposited two with the Library of Congress, as the law requires, offered the remainder for sale at $500,000 each. The ten books, kept in the vault of the Nassau County Trust Co. in Mineola. L. I., are not displayed by the publisher in accordance with Lawrence's will, although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading...
...want to mortgage the house he owned in Reno. Finally he borrowed $1,000 without security from a generous friend, made the down payment and bought equipment. Crudely he dug out three sacks of ore, trekked them out by packhorse and sent them to the San Francisco Mint. They were worth $84.45. His ore assayed at the bonanza rate of $1,495 gold and 20 oz. of silver per ton. If the Jumbo vein held out, George Austin was a very rich...
...same to the writer, and it has been placed in a handsome plate-glass case, and is on display in the office of Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives here in Charlotte. As soon as we finish our exhaustive investigation, we plan to give this to the Charlotte Mint Museum. This plaster cast of the skull measures 24 inches around the base and shows evidence of having been scarred by bullets and swords, and possibly trepanned...
...Feen-A-Mint's William H. Berg was especially wrought up over "street hawkers and pitchmen who peddle drugs from suitcases and wagons. They do $15,000,000 business a year. They slander our advertised products. They slander the American Medical Association. They should be stopped." Recently stopped by court order was Philadelphia Nuva-Dex Co., generally rated the biggest supplier of psyllium seeds, liniments and cure-alls of this irregular commerce...