Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room for the names of the players...
When in May 1869, on a bare shoulder of Utah the late great Leland Stanford swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading...
...jail, when my father was gone, I was left alone; the very lights were taken away. I had to use candles. They gave me eight candles during the last year of my incarceration. I lit the candles only to test the food, which I prepared myself, by thrusting a silver knife into the viands. Sometimes as often as twice a week the knife became stained-evidence of poison! If it appeared that nothing contained poison, I then would dress for dinner...
...fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. Not a scrap of metal was found in Jericho, thus bolstering the statement in Joshua: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. The foodstuffs dug up in the ruins of Jericho had remained uneaten because, as Holy Writ reports, the captors spurned such remnants of an "accursed" city...
...because chemical analyses proved its stains to be blood, the Holy Tunic would seem to have better claims to authenticity than two other famed relics, the Holy Coat of Trier and the Holy Shroud of Turin. The Holy Shroud of Turin, an ancient piece of linen cloth in a silver casket locked with three silver keys, has belonged to the House of Savoy for 500 years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ's body was painted by a French artist in the 14th Century. Guarded...