Word: unum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign has given the co-chairman just the chance they needed to find an efficient yet flexible solution for the charities problem. The Committee has made the recipient charities as personal as possible and has coordinated all the separate drives throughout the University into a single campaign. "E Pluribus Unum" represents the organizational aim of the committeemen. Its monetary significance should induce students to respond generously...
Last week UNESCO began printing money in an international currency all its own-the Unum (value $5). Unums (for UNESCO Unit of Money) are not real money in the sense that they can buy either guns, butter or trips abroad. But each of the 130,000-Unums-worth of bills (in one, two-and ten-Unum denominations) printed in Paris last week, and backed by UNESCO's own dollar reserve, will be worth its face value in exchange for books, films and scientific equipment in any UNESCO country...