Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stroll on Bolinas Beach, north of the Golden Gate, one afternoon last fortnight went Alf Harrodon, 33-year-old radio operator. Striding along with head in air he stumbled on something soft. Looking down, he saw a large mass of greyish stuff, mottled and opaque. In his hands it felt and smelled like limburger cheese...
...there have been no hitches in their programme, because for a certain time people will live on promises and expectations. But the golden vistas held out by the Nazis that now hang in front of the German people with shimmering magnificence will certainly be dissipated by the passage of time and the necessary and inevitable failure of Hitler to make them into realities. I think that once faith in the success and truthfulness of the Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence...
...abrogation," he said, "on the part of the Government of the contracts with the airmail operators, made in good faith on the part of the operators, and the recommendation that these lines have no preemptive right to carry mail over routes that they have pioneered, places a golden opportunity before the promoters all over the country to get active again to promote companies to bid and sell their interest out to the American public at large profits
...Manchu but pure Chinese were the golden Chow who ruled China for 866 years (1122-256 B. C), longest-lived of all China's dynasties. Under Chow emperors Chinese savants were instrumental in discovering the compass. Under them, too, was established the first "league of nations," a League of States to prevent War, in 515 B.C. "How courteous and elegant are all its way" wrote Confucius. "I am for the House of Chow...
...lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th Century. Later still, the golden iridescences of Tiffany glass, created by the late Louis Comfort Tiffany (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), had a transitory popularity. Although collectors crow over early American glass, much now available cannot be definitely authenticated, much more is counterfeit...