Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bills of higher denomination could be used, especially two-dollar bills. If a person makes a small purchase with a five-dollar bill, he gets small change and four one-dollar bills. If he got silver change and two two-dollar bills, the paper money expense would be cut nearly in half...
...paper money. They are chiefly two: 1) The dollar is worth now less than two thirds its pre-War value. Consequently, people have to carry about a third again as many bills to purchase the same things, and many a dollar bill now has to be handled where silver change sufficed before; 2) the growth of the automobile industry has meant that garage men and gasoline vendors with oily hands touch much more money. There is nothing like oil to weaken the fibre and make a bill flabby, dirty...
...Silver dollars, which last indefinitely, could be used, but the public will not have them (TIME, Apr. 20, BUSINESS). The Government tried several months ago to pass them out, but without success...
...long ago, the King was reminded of the approach of his silver jubilee. On what day would he hold an official celebration? Certainly not on the anniversary of the death of his illustrious father. Not on August 9, for it is then too hot in Rome. But perhaps he would care to have it celebrated on May 24, the day upon which Italy entered the War? No, the Soldier-King, as the Italians call him, would not hold his jubilee on that day. He recalled that June 7 was Constitution Day, commanded that, on that day, would be celebrated...
...olive of Pharmacy, lilac of Dentistry, russet of Forestry, gray of Veterinary Science, lemon of Library Science, light blue of Pedagogy, drab of Commerce and Accountancy, sage of Physical Education, salmon of Public Health, orange of Engineering, silver of Oratory, maize of Agriculture and copper of Economics appear to be arbitrary selections for degrees more recently instituted...