Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy Yard workmen who had built the V-5 gave Mrs. Adams a silver platter on which was an engraved likeness of their handiwork. The V-5 is a long-range cruising vessel, 371 feet long, with a surface displacement of 2,760 tons.* She will be commissioned next May. Plans were hastened for starting construction on her twin...
...before, he had been, ordained to the priesthood. After mass he went next door, visited the Lateran Palace. Then back to the Vatican he went, as quietly as he had come. Next day the Pope, robed in the full majesty of his Pontificate, in cream-colored silk cloak, gold-&-silver-embroidered, crowned with the Triregnum (triple crown), closed his golden jubilee with a solemn mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where 70.000 Catholics cheered him. Then he beatified the relics of Father John Ogilvie, Scottish priest hanged by the Calvinists 300 years...
...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...
...tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...
...does an adventurous artist reach when his sailing ship is dashed by storm against the knees of Greenland's icy mountains? Artist Rockwell Kent, thus shipwrecked last summer (TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father's silver flute, his own good bowie knife. Upon what does the marooned artist then paint the epic of his wanderings? Artist Kent told that too: upon bedsheets furnished by great hearted Greenland Danes...