Word: silver
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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...
...Idea: "Furniture of the 4th Dimension." The Motive: To make small flats efficient; to follow skyscraper architecture; to initiate black, grey, silver as in modern dress. The Story: "When we have cast aside the sedulous mimicking of modes of a bygone era, then and then only shall our decorative art be truly creative." So said last week famed Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers...
...Idea: Black and silver, mirrored, pastel-colored bathrooms. The Motive: To make housewives proud of the bathroom; to make this room as modern as the rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...
...found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces of the silver screen where the spectator may be a vicarious hero just as in the Stadium, and with as little trouble...
Almeida Cell is neutral. The negative plate contains zinc crystals, the positive graphite mixed with silver. They rest in a solution of zinc chloride and zinc bromide. Batteries made up of these cells, said the inventor priest, are 93% efficient, whereas alkaline batteries are 50% efficient, acid batteries...