Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument was exhibited which has power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos* Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Minnesota warned laconically: "Americans eat too much." Officers elected: Dr. Rudolph...
...Chauncey M. Depew, onetime ubiquitous, silver-tongued herald of the Republican Party, said (of Coolidge) : "His own platform and his own campaign" ; (of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt) : "The same sound timber in the son as in the honored sire...
...club evicted. University authorities ordered the club to depart in obedience to an ancient rule forbidding the use of dormitory rooms as club headquarters. Whereupon the Harvard Liberal Club offered the use of its rooms and the LaFollette men kept on with their work of direct- ing the silver-haired Senator's campaign in and about Cambridge...
Perkins will meet the winner of today's match between Parke Cummings '25 and G. D. Debevoise '26 in the finals of the tournament. The last game of the tournament will be played either Sunday or Monday. The winner of the final match will receive the silver cup offered by the Union...
...dropped behind like milestones-Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington; then colored country again, woods and fields, the brave and opulent lands of proud Virginia. All day it flew south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile...