Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet. Large cups, on which the names of the winners will be inscribed, have been donated by alumni and officials of the University. These trophies will be permanent and will be named after men prominent in track annals at Harvard. Besides these rewards, place winners will also receive gold, silver, or bronze medals from...
...Fine sounding phrases," said she, "emanating from the silver-tongued orators of the 'pink' variety . . . are not meeting the present world situation. . . . Instead, it is our red-blooded American citizens of the Marines and the Navy in whom we must put our trust and upon whom America must depend if she is to keep her ratio of the world's peace...
Since the envelope was long, crisp, important, a flunky in tight breeches and silver braid carried it gingerly to the Chamberlain, Admiral Herr von Reuber Paschwitz. More in amaze than anger, the Admiral muttered "Dummkopf! Blockhead!" ripped, discovered the letter to be signed by Major Judson Hannigan (able morale developer, training camp inspirationalist, generous cup and counsel donor to promising rookies) 104th Infantry, Boston, Mass...
...Pantheon de la Guerre in Paris there was an operation a month ago. A pair of silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is a pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than...
...shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from...