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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Travel Air all alone from San Francisco home. Because he was the first boy under 21 to make a transcontinental solo flight, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation gave him a $1,000 prize, Siemens & Halske Motor Co. (whose engine drove his plane) gave him a silver loving cup, and, last week, President Coolidge shook his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

James Joseph Tunney, retired fisti-cuffer, last week in Portsmouth, England, presented a silver cup to the Royal Marines as a token of goodwill from the U. S. Marines. But, earlier in the week, he had brewed illwill among newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...period gown of cream crepe and silver (or was it crystal?) seemed a part of her. She was alternately serious and arch; now she reflected the lights and shadows of the land of her birth; now she was the spirit of the beauty of Paris, where she has a home; now she might be demanding that her fairy dreams might be also philosophical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Binghamton, Walska | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Innumerable duets will find a luminescent cosiness in the La Salle-Fisher special convertible town car, glistening with greens, pale yellows and silver after The Conversation by Watteau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motor Masterpieces | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Regally imperious must be the wife who would venture forth with the Cadillac-Fleetwood King Henry VIII, sumptuously decorated in wine, red and silver after the Holbein portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motor Masterpieces | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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