Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order of His Majesty, the Royal Mint will, on Dec. 1, issue a new series of silver coins, the first general restriking of silver coins since 1816. A feature of the order is the re-introduction of the crown (about the size of a silver dollar, worth about $1.20), or five-shilling piece, which has not been minted since King Edward VII's coronation. Beside the crown (cartwheel), there will be three-penny pieces (thripney bits), sixpenny pieces (tanners), shillings (bobs), two-shilling pieces (florins) and half-crowns (two shillings and sixpence, also known as half a dollar...
...Harvard team, as announced last night by G. E. Gravell '28, president of the club, will play in the following order...
...took in the lives of Manet, Monet, Cezanne and still more recently in Bellows in the "Archery Party" there is a experimental study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic ostentatious appearance. The English scene "Punting" is mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view an experimental note can be found in the water colors of grave yard scenes. Though color is generally...
...Author may append to his name, Francis Josiah Hudleston, the enigmatic initials O. B. E., C. B. E.; these signify that he is an officer, a commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
...irresponsible and unsheltered children, too numerous for the orphanages of any nation to control, will serve in the next ten years as a test of the Soviet's ability. If they neither die off, nor grow up into gangs of adult criminals, but find a place in the social order, unlimited praise will be given to the government which rescues them...