Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming pools with silver. That ions (atomic fragments) of silver, copper and some other metals in extremely minute traces have a powerful germicidal effect was discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional Country Club in Washington became the first silvered pool...
...white pages are made warm by the artist's pencilled notes, ''Yellow Legs, Fire Island-The Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails-They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock-October Flight," a plate with the violet of early evening on swamp alders, and the big yellow moon coming over the mountain, easily a match for Rex Brasher's more meticulous rendition of the same ghostly little subject...
...next inning Harvard got four more when Bilodeau tripled to right after an error and hits by Frank Owen and Adzigian and scored himself as Colwell was out at the plate trying to stretch a triple to left...
Hitting honors for the day went to the third basemen where Connolly and Owen gathered three for three, and Frank Nugent of the Alumni four for four. Other slugger was John Chase, graduate second baseman, who got himself four safeties in five trips to the plate...
Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...