Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award, which consists of a gold and silver medal and a stipend of $5000, was initiated in 1796 for the purpose of encouraging and honoring outstanding discoveries in the area of physics then known as "heat and light." Previous winners include Enrico Fermi, Edwin Langmuir, and Thomas Edison...
Paul H. Buck, Librarian of Harvard College, was made a Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix, and Harry K. Messenger, Honorary Curator of the Modern Greek Collection in the Harvard College Library, received the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I for devoting his full time in the past two and a half years to increasing the collection...
...father summoned a guard. Two bars, worth an estimated $10,000 apiece melted down, had indeed disappeared. The case was opened. The remaining bars proved to be not gold but copper...
Some time, somehow, a highly ingenious thief had manufactured copper copies, embarrassed museum officials admitted last week, and substituted them for the gold originals, which presumably he sold for a tidy profit. And for months or years, the museum's expert had been lecturing learnedly over the copper fakes without ever noticing the change...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Adventures in Music, with Harry Belafonte, Renata Tebaldi, Maurice Evans, Duo Pianists Gold and Fizdale, the New York City Ballet and the Baird puppets...