Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Security. In announcing his for eign policy, M. Briand professed himself faithful to the League Protocol, mortally wounded by the silver rapier of British Foreign Secretary Chamberlain's oratory (TIME, Mar. 23, INTERNATIONAL), as embodying France's cherished objectives?Security, Arbitration, Disarmament...
...dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...will assemble to watch the birdie from the steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
Other speeches had other themes-World Court, Preparedness, Child Labor, Man. Officers were elected. Mrs. Borden Harriman and others were applauded. Sixty-five college girls from 36 colleges paraded. To the California league went a silver loving cup for winning the increase-the-vote contest...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...