Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Darbhangans stood around to watch the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition drop in from Purnea by plane for a ceremonial visit with H. R. H. After a sumptuous banquet and many speeches of congratulation, he next day paraded the mountain flyers to the field with a 37-elephant procession, silver and gold carriages, a monster drum and native band...
...against the President's wishes an amendment authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to fix farm prices to meet the cost of production; haggled long over radical amendments to innate the currency as the only adequate means of farm relief; defeated (43-10-33) an amendment to remonetize silver...
...bullet-proof steel. Its top will be made of plunder-proof, non-shatterable glass. It will be bolted to the concrete floor and weighted down with iron. A combination safe lock will guard its contents. Peering through the non-shatterable glass the sight-seer will see, fastened to a silver rod, George Washington's false teeth, the lower set dangling from the upper by the little gold springs which held them in his country's father's mouth...
...bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms at the Foreign Office where Host Litvinov dispenses champagne and caviar on solid silver plates-belonging to the government...
...Constant Optimist," by R. J. Bry '35, is the winning play in the Student Prize Play Competition, the play-reading committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club announced last night. A silver plaque with appropriate inscription will be awarded...