Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...pressed railroad president or his worried banker but the man who is reputed to own more railroad securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...
...notable exception occurred in 1885 when the builders of the Canadian Pacific decided that a golden spike would be absurd after the vyay they had worked to save money, that a good iron spike for the last would do as well as one did for the first...
...from 1865 to 1895, "The Brown Decades," as he calls them, as the subject of his most recent critical study, he did America a great service. Those years are, to most of us, the age of brownstone mansions and little else; the author of "Sticks and Stones" and "The Golden Day" in his new book shows us that things of real importance were happening underneath the drab exterior of the period...
...future development of our civilization, but they gave us few monuments. Richardson and Roebling, Marsh, Olmstead and Eliot--these men laid the foundations on which we have built, they did not contribute, in most cases, the masterpieces associated with a genuine renaissance. What Mr. Mumford said in "The Golden Day" is more nearly true than any expression he uses in "The Brown Decades," that "a genuine culture was beginning to struggle upward again in the seventies." That culture had not then and indeed has not now, reached its peak...