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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, changing from Scout uniform to Alice-blue ensemble with black felt hat and silver fox fur, she visited the Girl Scouts' national headquarters, handshook 100 workers and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Three Things Wanted | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Loew's State is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable talkies we have been privileged to see since the advent of that form of motion picture. The story of the play, unfamiliar to but few veteran theatre-goers, is skillfully and subtly handled so that its transformation to the silver screen is attended by virtually no loss of appeal, dramatic or human...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

...group of Chinese men gathered last week in a large dismal house in Hong Kong. They watched a man write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fallen Silver | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Telluride district contains gold, silver, lead, zinc. Famed mines: Liberty Bell, Silver Pick, Tomboy, Black Bear, Smuggler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banker Found | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...have unfurled the Four-Square banner in Waukegan in answer to Mr. Voliva's rule of injustice and tyranny and to provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon the faithful to come forward, rejoiced as Zion-deserters increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: McPherson v. Voliva | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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