Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small entry fee will be charged for the qualifying tests to be held during the whole of next week but no green fees will be charged during the match play rounds. The winner will receive a gold medal, and a silver medal will be awarded to the runner-up. Alan G. Pattee '37 carried off the title last year after vanquishing William E. Sibley '35, captain of this year's team, in the final round...
There was little China could do last week, but that little she did. Finance Minister H. H. Rung sent a protest against the U. S. silver policy to the state department in Washington. Timed to accompany the protest went several unofficial threats. Unless the U. S. stopped deflating China's currency, she might be forced to switch from silver to gold. She could do this because the Central Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government...
...black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney swept into the chambers of a New York Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan. Trotting at her side was a spindly little girl of 10 who called her "Aunt Gertrude." In an outer room sat the little girl's mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. If Mrs. Whitney noticed that her brother "Reggie's" widow was also dressed in a black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, there was no glance to show...
...year A. Stein & Co. makes nearly $1,000,000. (But last year it made only $280,00.) The concern was started in a one-room plant in Chicago in the 1880s by Albert Stein, a German immigrant, to turn out ladies' fancy garters with rabbits' feet and silver buckles and the blazing armbands favored by the high-collared boulevardiers of that era. One by one he imported his three brothers, the last of whom, Sigmund, is now head of the company...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...