Word: mintings
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Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...
Oklahoma! Mint-fresh, clover-sweet folk musical with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...could have knocked a Kentucky colonel over with a mint leaf. Kentuckians well remember Alben Barkley's admission of fealty: "If being loyal to the greatest President is hanging on his coattails, I'm proud to hang...
There is also a great deal to be said for Jimmy's experience as chief inspector of the English Mint, charged with firing his best coiner ("Samuel did a good job on the pound notes, and he was all right with the half-pound notes and shillings. But Sam, he made da pence too long...
...many of you, I wonder, have ever been inside a Mint where there are made all the pennies and nickels which you have to spend, and all the other coins for the people of the country." Thus the Director of the United States Treasury made its appeal to the "Boys and Girls of this School" to break open their piggy banks and get their collections of Indian head pennies into circulation. There were two soberer versions, but we liked this one best...