Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven by ten yards, placed inside another so as to leave a rather large corridor around the outside. Within the inmost chamber, a heavy, lacquered and decorated coffin lay upon a thick woolen carpet. In the second chamber were found the valuable textiles and other objects. No golden or silver pieces were found in any of the tombs due to the fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also not to be discovered, although as many as 17 queues of human hair wrapped up in silk were found hanging...
...legend tells, George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, it doubtless bore a British stamp. Later, his own features appeared on experimental, unauthorized dollars of the young country he fathered...
From the native chieftains Il Benito received "the traditional royal gift, presents of unminted gold." Likewise a coal-black Arab stallion was presented to him-a splendid beast, covered with a red, white and silver cloth on which was embroidered: "To the Carrier of Water to Dry Lands...
Tucson, Ariz., was thrilled when, in an old limekiln on Silver Bell Road, cast lead swords and crosses were unearthed, bearing inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew, whose face value indicated that Roman Jews had penetrated to Arizona in 760 A. D. and founded a kingdom lasting into the Tenth Century. Mormons rejoiced, saying that this chronology coincided with their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...