Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel...
Like a Brick. As soon as the news got back to Gold Bridge, a tiny town on the Bridge River, prospectors for miles around got the itch. Some were gnarled veterans of the Gold Rush. Some were tenderfeet. Only one had a Geiger counter, and none knew anything about radioactive ores. That did not stop them...
...five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about...
...late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...