Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep on sampling. Last week, instead of a banana, they found a bonanza. They had struck gold 40 ft. down. Said Zeckendorf: "We will be able to sluice more than $1,000,000 worth of gold out of that sand. But I wouldn't say that this development means the whole city of Denver should...
Frodo at Fifty. Author Tolkien is the more disciplined storyteller, and The Fellowship of the Ring is the more appealing book. Actually, it is only the first third of a massive, three-volume cycle. The novel centers on a plain gold ring, magic but evil. The power of the ring varies. A simple soul can slip it on and make himself invisible, but a tyrant can slip it on and rule the world. In The Fellowship of the Ring, which takes place in the "Third Age of Middle Earth," the drama springs from the fact that a simple soul...
Some local clothiers also denied that they had trafficked in tickets. The Gold Coast Valertia had "no comment" when asked about selling. Several other stores reported hearing student talk of exorbitant prices, but said they had not handled any tickets themselves...
George Packer Berry, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, has pointed out that "the period from 1910 to 1950 is referred to so often as the 'golden age of medicine' that I sometimes wonder if we have forgotten that all that glitters is not gold." The inundation of a teaching programs by a tidal wave of new facts tends to submerge the medical student and to obscure for him the principles of medical science...
...Hull who has been ill, said, "I'm very happy my doctors are letting me attend the ceremony and receive my citation in person." Before her recent illness she starred in the Broadway play, "The Solid Gold Cadillac...