Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent investigations which are said to have been the costliest are those by the Committee on Mines & Mining into gold and silver production, by the Committee on Public Lands & Surveys into forest reserves, etc., and by the special committee under Senator Couzens into the Internal Revenue Bureau...
...Toyko could be heard a shrill, joyous cackling. Aged financiers assured one another over chopsticks* and rice that the Golden Sun of Japan will soon rise upon a yen restored to the gold standard. Meanwhile Japanese government officials called attention to the fact that the embargo against exporting silver from Japan was recently lifted without untoward results...
Laund Lero, a great collie, big-boned, deep-coated, thin in the groin and heavy in the chest. He was imported less than a year ago from England, where he had won five gold medals, three silver trophies, 68 blue ribbons. His color is mahogany sable. Owned by Mrs. Florence B. Ilch...
...name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that this dance had originated among reveling black bucks and yellow girls, who pranced on spring nights under the white holiday moon along the Charleston waterfront. He asserted loudly that it had reunited forever the nation which was divided when Charleston fired...
...display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend and secretary to Conrad, is also available in the Treasure Room...