Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After limited action last season, the 6-1, 185-pound Taylor showed great improvement in pre-season, drills last fall as a strong skater and a hard shooter. His play with Kinasewich and Jorgenon has overshadowed the supposed first line of Jim Dwinell, Dave Morse, and Dave Grannis, all seniors...
Like English place names, English coins have an illogic all their own: while there are half crowns, which to foreigners are almost indistinguishable from florins or 2-shilling pieces, crowns are collectors' items. Though many expensive items are still priced by the guinea (1 pound plus 1 shilling), there is no guinea coin or bill...
Fivepenny Sixpences. Of various proposals for decimalization, the most practical is the solution already adopted by South Africa and recommended for Australia and New Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin...
...currency really got unmanageable around 770, when Offa, King of Mercia, decided to issue pennies weighing the equivalent of "32 wheat corns in the midst of the ear." Since the pound sterling was based on a pound of silver, this later came out to 240 pence to the pound...
From 9 to 5, the English are still a penny-wise nation of shopkeepers. In their leisure time, more and more, they turn into pound-foolish gamblers. Spurred by the liberal new Betting and Gaming Act, which makes it easier than ever to have a "flutter," Britons by last week were in the midst of the biggest gambling boom in their history. In 1961, they have gambled away some $3 billion, 62% of their 1961 budget for defense. Dance halls and movie theaters (including many in the J. Arthur Rank chain, hard hit by TV) have been transformed into bigtime...