Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual event since the founding of the society in 1895, the dinners always consist of speeches by members of the University and the singing of Harvard songs. The Colonial silver of Harvard, brought from the Fogg Museum for the occasion, will be used on the table. Most valuable piece in the silver collection is the "Great Salt" dating from...
Last week in Canton took place a currency operation that coolies understood and relished. Creeping past Japanese sentries on a quiet Sunday, 100 guerrillas raided the Japanese-owned Bank of Taiwan, bayoneted three guards, smashed open the safes, grabbed $260,000 in notes, $90,000 in silver coins, escaped with a 20-minute lead. Baffled Japanese clamped martial law on the city that night, lifted it again before daybreak...
...soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
...ideas on money are summed up in a statement of Schacht, former German economic minister, that "Money that is not issued against needed goods is mere printed paper," and the remark that "gold and silver are not needed goods...
...object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal...