Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the donation by Percy S. Straus '97 of a silver coffee urn for inter-House athletic competition in all sports, the Interhouse Athletic Committee has worked out a point system for scoring the results of the present year's competition...
...diving championship of the Freshman class will also be held along with the main meet. The six entrants in this event will compete for a much coveted silver-plated trophy. The two main contestants are William Fraser and Robert Chase who together have piled up many points for the Crimson team...
...Emulsion: mixture of gelatine and silver salt which surfaces the film. The action of light releases silver from the salt, darkening the film where the release occurs. "High-speed" means sensitive enough to require only a very short exposure. Panchromatic means sensitive to all colors...
...through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo...