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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, Albert Begleite, Seymour Cohen, Bernard Silver, George Zuckerman, Philip Ausuacks ran howling down a ^treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...trophy, in most cases a silver loving cup, will be awarded the winner of each of the 15 events in the University handicap meet held this afternoon and tomorrow. The donors of 14 of the cups were named in a recent issue of the CRIMSON. The fifteenth will be donated to the winner of the discus throw by a group of graduates in honor of Coach Donovan and will bear the names of the Harvard trainer and sprinting coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERS WILL BE HEAVILY POUNDED | 5/4/1928 | See Source »

...smiling women climbed into the cabin of the comfortable Fairchild ship, sat in the becurtained and be-flowered parlor of the Fokker Super-universal, peeked into the baggageroom and the lavatory boasted by the Loening Amphibian. Army and Navy officers inspected the two Corsairs done in navy blue and silver by Chance Vought. Mail pilots peeked at the streamlined Bellanca, made for speed flying. Collegians assembled about the first plane built with a rumble seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In a Cage | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

HANGING JOHNNY-Myrtle Johnston-Appleton ($2). For a handful of silver, Johnny the Hangman hangs his friend, knowing him innocent. The horror of it clings, though Johnny escapes the indignant mob to a distant Irish village. He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Johnny | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Medals will be awarded for all five places this year, instead of only for the first three as formerly. These will be of watch charm size; gold for first silver for second, and bronze for the last three places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTRANTS IN HANDICAP MEET URGED TO SIGN NOW | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

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