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...Treasury Department found itself printing (in 1926) 227,566,949 sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department...
...without a word Death went down, leaving the lightning flash, and carried Sister Caroline back...
Patients in the General Hospital at Kansas City, Mo., were disturbed shortly before midnight, one night last week, by a loud explosion and a sudden flash of light. Then the night resumed its quietude and its blackness. Next day, investigators found a burned patch of grass on the hospital grounds and a few small holes, less than two inches in diameter, in the earth. A fireball (meteor) had hit Kansas City...
...with dusty roads and winding rivers, in the hazy distance, rides and marches a mighty host, the Armies of France returning victorious from fighting the enemy. Some hairy-chested sappers with picks and shovels shouldered, a squad of mounted trumpeters and a squad of fierce Bedouin cavalry whose cutlasses flash over their white stallions' necks, have already passed between two massive marble cenotaphs that stand at the entrance of a great amphitheatre...
Borah of Southern California won his heats in both the 100 and 220 and Alder man of Michigan also placed among the furlong leaders. Huesoy, Boston College flash, was prevented from entering the meet by sickness...