Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbey is the cathedral of Wawel Castle. Here lie buried Poland's ancient kings and heroes: John Sobieski who saved Vienna and Europe from the Turks in 1683; Kosciuszko, Champion of Liberty; Prince Poniatowski. President Moscicki pronounced the last eulogy and the body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw...
...boar-hunting and falconry went for $11,000 apiece. A Gainsborough was knocked down for $6,700, a Joshua Reynolds landscape for only $1,600, a Jan Steen for $3,200, a Rembrandt Peale Washington for $3,400. A Chippendale mahogany and needlepoint settee sold for $2,600; two silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table downstairs. Total proceeds...
...Missouri Historical Society. The 3,000 items included: the grease-stained Lindbergh flying suit; the Congressional Medal of Honor; decorations from 20 governments; 49 old life-membership passes in fraternities and lodges; 18 gold keys to cities in Europe and the U. S.; 14 portrait busts in silver, bronze, plaster, peachstone, soap; numerous paintings; 256 books; 200 medals; 64 models of the Spirit of St. Louis, including one cut from a half-inch diamond; gold & silver loving-cups; gold & diamond-studded personal jewelry, including six stickpins, ten watches, nine rings; a pair of 18th Century silver globes worth...
...manufacturing items and procedures which the engineers discussed, the following attracted most attention: Yielding metal disks to replace safety valves in tanks which contain corrosive gases; pure, unyielding platinum, gold and silver to line tubes and machinery; porous bricks which act as heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of sodium in tank cars so full that no air or water can get in to deteriorate them; production on a vast scale at Wilson Dam of phosphatic fertilizers cheap enough to persuade Tennessee Valley farmers to refresh their exhausted, eroding soil...
...American" and its sister sheets will continue to appear; pronunciations from San Simion will continue to influence the beliefs of large numbers of citizens. Nevertheless, Harvard no longer gives unqualified consent by silence. It is true that in the future many battleships with fluttering flags will progress across the silver screen accompanied by the emotion-filled voice of a narrator; but some of the spectators will check the patriotic threbbing of their pulses and consider--perhaps--the diplomatic or financial corollaries of the spectacle...