Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the snow is off the ground, Pratt & Whitney expects to have its factory-on-a-silver-platter turning out as many high-powered motors as are now being crated in the loading room of its old plant, sees no trouble ahead in filling the requirements of the U. S. Army and Navy, plus still other orders from overseas...
Garfield H. Horn '40 of Winthrop House and Long Beach, California was cited by the House scholarship committee for general "intellectual merit" at the Christmas dinner last night. President Conant made the award, a pair of silver candlesticks...
...Prosperous Britons were pelting the Treasury last week with a patriotic shower of valuables to help win the war. Voluntarily they sent silver heirlooms, wedding and engagement rings, gold coins and even historic strings of family pearls. This mood of sacrifice was die-hard Britain at her best, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, while giving thanks, was obliged to announce that Britain can meet the mounting cost of World War II only if the whole population submits to "the most fearful sacrifices, some of which we have hardly begun to dream...
...Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
...silver trophy, which is approximately 20 inches high, is a gift of the House Committees. Richard B. Wolf '41, the Dunster manager, commented after the presentation, that "the cup doubles the number of trophies in the Dunster House Dining Room...